“For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 29 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.