³ You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”^(A)
4 A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.^(B)

⁹ All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.^(A)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,^(B)
    or eighty,^(C) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,^(D)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.^(E)
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
    Your wrath^(F) is as great as the fear that is your due.^(G)
12 Teach us to number our days,^(H)
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.^(I)