15 We are foreigners and strangers(A) in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow,(B) without hope.

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15 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.

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15 For (A)we are [a]aliens and [b]pilgrims before You,
As were all our fathers;
(B)Our days on earth are as a shadow,
And without hope.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:15 sojourners, temporary residents
  2. 1 Chronicles 29:15 transients, temporary residents in an even more temporary sense

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

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He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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(A)He comes forth like a flower and fades away;
He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

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“Surely everyone goes around(A) like a mere phantom;(B)
    in vain they rush about,(C) heaping up wealth(D)
    without knowing whose it will finally be.(E)

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Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:6 make an uproar for nothing