⁷ Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;^(A)
    my eyes will never see happiness again.^(B)

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]

³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh,^(A)
    a passing breeze^(B) that does not return.

⁴ They are like a breath;^(A)
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.^(B)

27 Do not boast^(A) about tomorrow,
    for you do not know what a day may bring.^(B)

²² Stop trusting in mere humans,^(A)
    who have but a breath^(B) in their nostrils.
    Why hold them in esteem?^(C)