For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners. — Psalms 39:12.
Our days on the earth are as a (the) shadow. — Job 8:9; Psalms 144:4.
And there is none abiding. — Rather, and there is no hope; no outlook, no assured future, no hope of permanence. What is the ground for this plaintive turn in the thought? Merely, it would seem, to emphasise what has just been said. We, as creatures of a day, can have no abiding and absolute possession. Our good things are lent to us for a season only. As our fathers passed away, so shall we.