People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

人好像一口气；他的年日如同影儿快快过去。

人不过像一口气，他的年日如影消逝。

人不过像一口气，他的年日如影消逝。

因为人不过像一口气，他的年日不过像影子转眼消逝。

人不过像一口气，他的年日仿佛影子消逝。

人好像一口气，他的年日就像影子那样过去。

人好像一口氣；他的年日如同影兒快快過去。

人不過像一口氣，他的年日如影消逝。

人不過像一口氣，他的年日如影消逝。

因為人不過像一口氣，他的年日不過像影子轉眼消逝。

人不過像一口氣，他的年日仿佛影子消逝。

人好比一口氣；他的年日如同影兒直在過去。

人好像一口氣，他的年日就像影子那樣過去。

世人如氣息、其日如影迅逝兮、

斯世之人、如氣呼吸、人之生命、如影沉西兮、

世人有如虛幻、其年壽如影易逝、

人生如夢影。歲月同浮雲。浮雲瞬息逝。蹤跡不可尋。

They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

Their lives don’t last any longer than a breath. Their days are like a shadow that quickly disappears.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow.

A human is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Man is like the breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

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

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

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

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

“ Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher,“ Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”

But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

“ Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.( Selah)

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile– like chasing the wind!

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

“ Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher,“ All of these things are futile!”

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.