⁵ In fact, you have made my days just handbreadths long,
and my lifespan is as nothing to you.
Yes, every human being stands as only a vapour.^(A) Selah
⁶ Yes, a person goes about like a mere shadow.
Indeed, they rush around in vain,
gathering possessions
without knowing who will get them.^(B)

¹¹ You discipline a person with punishment for iniquity,
consuming like a moth what is precious to him;^(A)
yes, every human being is only a vapour.^(B) Selah

² ‘Absolute futility,’ says the Teacher.
‘Absolute futility. Everything is futile.’^(A)

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him;
they are considered by him
as empty nothingness.^(A)