Job 10:20
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20 Are not my days few? Stop!
Let me alone, that I may recover a little
Job 15:14
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Psalm 39:5-6
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II
5 Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days,
that I may learn how frail I am.
6 To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days;
indeed, my life is as nothing before you.
Every man is but a breath.(A)
Selah
Psalm 89:46
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46 You cut short the days of his youth,
covered him with shame.
Selah
V
Wisdom 2:1
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Chapter 2
1 For, not thinking rightly, they said among themselves:[a]
“Brief and troubled is our lifetime;(A)
there is no remedy for our dying,
nor is anyone known to have come back from Hades.
Footnotes
- 2:1–20 In this speech the wicked deny survival after death and indeed invite death by their evil deeds.
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