⁵ You have made my days^(A) a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,^(B)
    even those who seem secure.^[a]

⁶ “Surely everyone goes around^(C) like a mere phantom;^(D)
    in vain they rush about,^(E) heaping up wealth^(F)
    without knowing whose it will finally be.^(G)

⁷ “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
    My hope is in you.^(H)

¹¹ When you rebuke^(A) and discipline^(B) anyone for their sin,
    you consume^(C) their wealth like a moth^(D)—
    surely everyone is but a breath.^(E)

¹² “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;^(F)
    do not be deaf^(G) to my weeping.^(H)
I dwell with you as a foreigner,^(I)
    a stranger,^(J) as all my ancestors were.^(K)