“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
^(A)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
^(B)cursed is the ground because of you;
    ^(C)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
¹⁸ thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹ By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
^(D)for you are dust,
    and ^(E)to dust you shall return.”

^(A)“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,

^(C)“That you may be justified in your words,
    and prevail when you ^(D)are judged.”

⁵ You ^(A)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like ^(B)a dream,
    like ^(C)grass that is renewed in the morning:
⁶ in ^(D)the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
    in the evening it ^(E)fades and ^(F)withers.

⁷ For we are brought to an end by your anger;
    by your wrath we are dismayed.
⁸ You have ^(G)set our iniquities before you,
    our ^(H)secret sins in the light of your presence.

⁹ For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
¹⁰ The years of our life are seventy,
    or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span^[a] is but toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹ Who considers the power of your anger,
    and your wrath according to the fear of you?

^12 (I)So teach us to number our days
    that we may get a heart of wisdom.