Add parallel Print Page Options

23 Like a lengthening shadow I am gone,
    I am shaken off like the locust.

Read full chapter

23 I fade away like an evening shadow;(A)
    I am shaken off like a locust.

Read full chapter

[a]Man is but a breath,
    his days are like a passing shadow.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 144:4 Composed of phrases from Ps 39:6; 102:12.

They are like a breath;(A)
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.(B)

Read full chapter

As we are but of yesterday and have no knowledge,
    because our days on earth are but a shadow—(A)

Read full chapter

for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,(A)
    and our days on earth are but a shadow.(B)

Read full chapter

Like a flower that springs up and fades,(A)
    swift as a shadow that does not abide.

Read full chapter

They spring up like flowers(A) and wither away;(B)
    like fleeting shadows,(C) they do not endure.(D)

Read full chapter

12 (A)For who knows what is good for mortals in life, the limited days of their vain life, spent like a shadow? Because who can tell them what will come afterward under the sun?(B)

Read full chapter

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?

Read full chapter

For our lifetime is the passing of a shadow;
    and our dying cannot be deferred
    because it is fixed with a seal; and no one returns.(A)

Read full chapter
'Wisdom 2:5' not found for the version: New International Version.