New Revised Standard Version
“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.

Contemporary English Version
My life is speeding by, without a hope of happiness.

New American Bible
My days are swifter than a runner, they flee away; they see no happiness;

Douay-Rheims Bible
My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.

My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.

swifter

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

Esther 8:14 So the swift posts went out carrying the messages, and the king's edict was hung up in Susan.

150 miles in less than

Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

hours.)

they flee away

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. . . .

Psalm 89:47 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Psalm 90:9,10 For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider: . . .

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.