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

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

²³ I am gone ^(A)like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.

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
⁶ Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they ^[a]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.

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