Job 8:9

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. abiding: Heb. expectation

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. at...: Heb. settled

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. when...: or, when he hath passed them