What is "wasteth"

Usage examples of "wasteth".

Lordings, the time wasteth night and day, And steals from us, what privily sleeping, And what through negligence in our waking, As doth the stream, that turneth never again, Descending from the mountain to the plain.

And since he cannot spend and use aright The little time here given him in trust, But wasteth it in weary undelight Of foolish toil and trouble, strife and lust, 25 He naturally claimeth to inherit The everlasting Future, that his merit May have full scope.

But man dyeth, and wasteth away, yea, man giveth up the Ghost, and where is he?