25 “My (A)days are swifter than (B)a runner;
    they flee away; they see no good.

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14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

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My days are (A)swifter than (B)a weaver's shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.

“Remember that my life is a (C)breath;
    my eye will never again see good.

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For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The years of our life are seventy,
    or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span[a] is but toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:10 Or pride

47 (A)Remember (B)how short my (C)time is!
    For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

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11 When you discipline a man
    with (A)rebukes for sin,
you (B)consume like a (C)moth what is dear to him;
    (D)surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

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Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and (A)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely (B)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

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14 So the couriers, mounted on their (A)swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.

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