New Revised Standard Version
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

Contemporary English Version
So he cut their lives short and made them terrified.

New American Bible
God ended their days abruptly, their years in sudden death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

days

Psalm 90:7-9 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation. . . .

Numbers 14:29,35 In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me, . . .

Numbers 26:64,65 Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. . . .

Deuteronomy 2:14-16 And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn: . . .

years

Genesis 3:16-19 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee. . . .

Job 5:6,7 Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground. . . .

Job 14:1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Ecclesiastes 1:2,13,14 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all is vanity. . . .

Ecclesiastes 12:8,13,14 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity. . . .