⁹ for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,^(A)
    and our days on earth are but a shadow.^(B)

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

² They spring up like flowers^(A) and wither away;^(B)
    like fleeting shadows,^(C) they do not endure.^(D)

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

⁶ “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,^(A)
    and they come to an end without hope.^(B)

⁴ A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.^(A)

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]