And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.(A) My years have been few and difficult,(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.(C)

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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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Yet man is born to trouble(A)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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“Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)

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Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)

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14 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

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23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(A) even at night their minds do not rest.(B) This too is meaningless.

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23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

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18 Why did I ever come out of the womb(A)
    to see trouble(B) and sorrow
    and to end my days in shame?(C)

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18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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