20 (A)Are not my days few?
    (B)Then cease, and leave me alone, (C)that I may find a little cheer

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20 Are not my few days(A) almost over?(B)
    Turn away from me(C) so I can have a moment’s joy(D)

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22 For when a few years have come
    I shall go the way (A)from which I shall not return.

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22 “Only a few years will pass
    before I take the path of no return.(A)

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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my (A)sojourning are 130 years. (B)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (C)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their (D)sojourning.”

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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.(A) My years have been few and difficult,(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.(C)

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Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and (A)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely (B)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

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You have made my days(A) a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,(B)
    even those who seem secure.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.

47 (A)Remember (B)how short my (C)time is!
    For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

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47 Remember how fleeting is my life.(A)
    For what futility you have created all humanity!

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