12. All riches and wealth come from you; you rule everything by your strength and power; and you are able to make anyone great and strong.
13. Now, our God, we give you thanks, and we praise your glorious name.
14. “Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything, because everything is a gift from you, and we have only given back what is yours already.
15. You know, O Lord, that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.