New Revised Standard Version
for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.

Contemporary English Version
Our own time has been short, like a fading shadow, and we know very little.

New American Bible
As we are but of yesterday and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are but a shadow—

Douay-Rheims Bible
(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)

we are but.

Job 7:6 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Genesis 47:9 He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

Psalm 102:11 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

nothing.