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He comes out like (A)a flower and (B)withers;
    he flees like (C)a shadow and continues not.

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

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My (A)eye has grown dim from vexation,
    and all my members are like (B)a shadow.

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My eyes have grown dim with grief;(A)
    my whole frame is but a shadow.(B)

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15 (A)For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are (B)like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect

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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11 My days are like (A)an evening shadow;
    I (B)wither away like grass.

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11 My days are like the evening shadow;(A)
    I wither(B) away like grass.

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23 I am gone like (A)a shadow at evening;
    I am (B)shaken off like a locust.

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23 I fade away like an evening shadow;(A)
    I am shaken off like a locust.

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(A)Man is like a breath;
    his days are like (B)a passing (C)shadow.

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They are like a breath;(A)
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.(B)

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12 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his (A)vain life, which he passes like (B)a shadow? For who can tell man what will be (C)after him under the sun?

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12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days(A) they pass through like a shadow?(B) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

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