9  For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,

for our days on earth are a ^ashadow.

2  He comes out ^klike a flower and withers;

he flees like a shadow and continues not.

6  Surely a man goes about as a ^ushadow!

Surely for nothing¹ they are in turmoil;

^vman heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

11  My days are like an evening ^fshadow;

I wither away like grass.

23  I am gone like a ⁱshadow at evening;

I am shaken off like a locust.

4  Man is like a ^sbreath;

his days are like a passing ^tshadow.