⁶ To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days;
    indeed, my life is as nothing before you.
    Every man is but a breath.^(A)
Selah

⁷ Man goes about as a mere phantom;
    they hurry about, although in vain;
    he heaps up stores without knowing for whom.

^4 [a]Man is but a breath,
    his days are like a passing shadow.^(A)

¹⁶ I waste away: I will not live forever;^(A)
    let me alone, for my days are but a breath.

⁵ 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)