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

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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

23 I am gone like (A)a shadow at evening;
    I am (B)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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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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