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For you, a thousand years is only a short time.
They pass as quickly as a day for you,
    or just a few hours in the night.
You cause people's lives to end,
    as a dream finishes when you wake up.
People are like grass that appears in the morning.
During the morning, it grows well.
By the evening,
    it becomes dry and it dies.

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A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.(A)
Yet you sweep people away(B) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.(C)

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