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15 So that I should prefer strangulation
    and death rather than my existence.[a]
16 I waste away: I will not live forever;(A)
    let me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 [b]What are human beings, that you make much of them,
    or pay them any heed?

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Footnotes

  1. 7:15 Existence: lit., bones; the Hebrew is unclear.
  2. 7:17–18 An ironic allusion to Ps 8:5.