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All our sins are there for you to see.
    You even see the sins that we have tried to hide.
Your anger gives us trouble all through our lives.
    Then our lives end in a short groan.
10 The number of our days make 70 years,
    or maybe 80 years if we are strong enough.
But even in the best years of our lives,
    we have trouble and pain.
Our lives quickly pass,
    and we hurry towards death.

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You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins(A) in the light of your presence.(B)
All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.(C)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,(D)
    or eighty,(E) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(F)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(G)

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