⁹ for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,^(A)
    and our days on earth are but a shadow.^(B)

² They spring up like flowers^(A) and wither away;^(B)
    like fleeting shadows,^(C) they do not endure.^(D)

¹¹ My days are like the evening shadow;^(A)
    I wither^(B) away like grass.

²³ I fade away like an evening shadow;^(A)
    I am shaken off like a locust.