For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him (back) to see what shall be after him?
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
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.
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.