⁹ For ^(A)we were born yesterday, and know ^[a]nothing,
Because our days on earth are a shadow.

¹⁵ For ^(A)we are ^[a]aliens and ^[b]pilgrims before You,
As were all our fathers;
^(B)Our days on earth are as a shadow,
And without hope.

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

^2 (A)He comes forth like a flower and fades away;
He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

¹¹ My days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like grass.

^4 (A)For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
And like a watch in the night.

⁵ Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but ^(A)vapor. Selah