Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

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