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You have put the evil we have done right in front of you.
    You clearly see our secret sins.
All our days pass while you are angry.
    Our years end with a moan.
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.

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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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