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You have kept our faults before you,
    our hidden sins in the light of your face.(A)
Our life ebbs away under your wrath;(B)
    our years end like a sigh.
10 Seventy is the sum of our years,
    or eighty, if we are strong;
Most of them are toil and sorrow;
    they pass quickly, and 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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