⁴ A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.^(A)

¹⁰ Our days may come to seventy years,^(A)
    or eighty,^(B) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,^(C)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.^(D)