¹⁹ Will you never look away from me,^(A)
    or let me alone even for an instant?^(B)

²⁰ Are not my few days^(A) almost over?^(B)
    Turn away from me^(C) so I can have a moment’s joy^(D)
21 before I go to the place of no return,^(E)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,^(F)

²⁴ So I said:
“Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days;
    your years go on^(A) through all generations.