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14 He knows that we are weak humans.
    He remembers that he used dust to make us.
15 A person's life is like grass that quickly dies.
    He is strong only for a short time, like wild flowers in a field.
16 A hot wind blows over flowers and they die!
    Nobody even remembers where they were growing.

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14 for he knows how we are formed,(A)
    he remembers that we are dust.(B)
15 The life of mortals is like grass,(C)
    they flourish like a flower(D) of the field;
16 the wind blows(E) over it and it is gone,
    and its place(F) remembers it no more.

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