For all our days ebb away under your wrath;
we end our years like a sigh.(A)
10 Our lives last[a] seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are[b] struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.(B)
11 Who understands the power of your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due you.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 90:10 Lit The days of our years in them
  2. 90:10 LXX, Tg, Syr, Vg read Even their span is; Hb obscure

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