“Man, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Upon it [the] quiver rattles [along with] [the] flash of [the] spear and [the] short sword.

Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.

But I have understanding as well as you; I do not fall short of you; yes, who does not know such things as these?

What you know, I know also; I do not fall short of you.

Shall not my short life come so soon to an end? O hold thee from me, let me alone, that I may ease myself a little

The days of man are short, the number of his months are known only to thee. Thou hast appointed him his bounds; he cannot go beyond them.

For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?

This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

"They remain only a short time on the water's surface; their inheritance will be cursed in the land; no one will work in their vineyards.

I -- to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

After this lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

I set an example of the way to live, as a leader would; I lived like a king among his army; like one who comforts mourners."

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

And I knew he redeeming me lived, and at last he shall rise up upon the dust:

With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house?”
and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in?”

while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.

Don’t you know? You were already born;
you have lived so long!