Psalm 39:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵ How short you have made my life!
    In your sight my lifetime seems nothing.
Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,
⁶     no more than a shadow.
All we do is for nothing;
    we gather wealth, but don't know who will get it.

⁷ What, then, can I hope for, Lord?
    I put my hope in you.