New Revised Standard Version
Those of low estate are but a breath, those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Contemporary English Version
We humans are only a breath; none of us are truly great. All of us together weigh less than a puff of air.

New American Bible
Mortals are a mere breath, the sons of man but an illusion; On a balance they rise; together they weigh nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Surely

Psalm 39:5,11 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. . . .

1 Samuel 18:5,7 And David went out to whatsoever business Saul sent him, and he behaved himself prudently: and Saul set him over the soldiers, and he was acceptable in the eyes of all the people, and especially in the eyes of Saul's servants. . . .

1 Samuel 23:12,19,20 And David said: Will the men of Ceila deliver me and my men into the hands of Saul? And the Lord said: They will deliver thee up. . . .

2 Samuel 15:6 And this he did to all Israel that came for judgment, to be heard by the king, and he enticed the hearts of the men of Israel.

Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

John 19:15 But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

of high

Psalm 55:13,14 But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar, . . .

Psalm 118:9 It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.

1 Samuel 18:21-26 And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a stumblingblock to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law this day. . . .

1 Samuel 26:21-25 And Saul said: I have sinned; return, my son David, for I will no more do thee harm, because my life hath been precious in thy eyes this day: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly, and have been ignorant in very many things. . . .

2 Samuel 15:31 And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy with Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the counsel of Achitophel.

Romans 3:4 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

laid

Daniel 5:27 THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

altogether.

Isaiah 40:15,17 Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust. . . .