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17 [a]What are human beings, that you make much of them,
    or pay them any heed?
18 You observe them every morning(A)
    and try them at every moment!
19 How long before you look away from me,
    and let me alone till I swallow my spit?

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Footnotes

  1. 7:17–18 An ironic allusion to Ps 8:5.

17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,(A)
18 that you examine them every morning(B)
    and test them(C) every moment?(D)
19 Will you never look away from me,(E)
    or let me alone even for an instant?(F)

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