⁶ Yes, a person goes about like a mere shadow.
Indeed, they rush around in vain,
gathering possessions
without knowing who will get them.^(A)

⁵ You end their lives;^[a] they sleep.^(A)
They are like grass that grows in the morning –
⁶ in the morning it sprouts and grows;
by the evening it withers and dries up.^(B)

⁹ For all our days ebb away under your wrath;
we end our years like a sigh.^(A)
10 Our lives last^[a] for seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are^[b] struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.^(B)