"Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away."
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For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.