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

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

²     comes up like a flower and withers,
    flees like a shadow and does not last.^(A)

¹¹ My days are like a lengthening shadow;
    I wither away like grass.^(A)

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

⁴ For a thousand years in your sight
    are like yesterday when it is past
    or like a watch in the night.^(A)

⁵ You have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah^(A)