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

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

²³ I am gone like a shadow at evening;
    I am shaken off like a locust.^(A)

⁹ for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing,
    for our days on earth are but a shadow.^(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)
6     Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
    they heap up and do not know who will gather.^(B)