¹⁹ And the Lord changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea.^[a] Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt.

¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.^(A)

¹³ Yet because the wicked do not fear God,^(A) it will not go well with them, and their days^(B) will not lengthen like a shadow.

¹² For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days^(A) they pass through like a shadow?^(B) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

¹⁵ We are foreigners and strangers^(A) in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow,^(B) without hope.