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.(A)

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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

10 Our days may come to seventy years,(A)
    or eighty,(B) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(C)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(D)

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