⁹ For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
    for our days on earth are ^(A)a shadow.

^4 (A)Man is like a breath;
    his days are like ^(B)a passing ^(C)shadow.

² He comes out like ^(A)a flower and ^(B)withers;
    he flees like ^(C)a shadow and continues not.

¹¹ My days are like ^(A)an evening shadow;
    I ^(B)wither away like grass.

⁶ My days are ^(A)swifter than ^(B)a weaver's shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.

⁴ For ^(A)a thousand years in your sight
    are but as ^(B)yesterday when it is past,
    or as ^(C)a watch in the night.

⁵ Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and ^(A)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely ^(B)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah