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10 Our lifetime is 70 years.
    If we are strong, we may live to be 80.
But the years are full of hard work and pain.
    They pass quickly, and then we are gone.

11 Who knows the full power of your anger?
    Your anger is as great as our fear of you should be.
12 Teach us how short our lives really are
    so that we may be wise.

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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)
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
    Your wrath(E) is as great as the fear that is your due.(F)
12 Teach us to number our days,(G)
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.(H)

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