He comes out like (A)a flower and (B)withers;
    he flees like (C)a shadow and continues not.

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My (A)eye has grown dim from vexation,
    and all my members are like (B)a shadow.

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15 (A)For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are (B)like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect

23 I am gone like (A)a shadow at evening;
    I am (B)shaken off like a locust.

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(A)Man is like a breath;
    his days are like (B)a passing (C)shadow.

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12 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his (A)vain[a] life, which he passes like (B)a shadow? For who can tell man what will be (C)after him under the sun?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:12 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)

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