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People are not clean and pure.
    Nobody can change them to become pure.
You have decided how long people should live.
    You control the number of months that each person will live.
    Nobody can live any longer than that.
So do not watch us! Leave us alone!
We must work for the time that you have decided.
    Please leave us to work in peace.

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Who can bring what is pure(A) from the impure?(B)
    No one!(C)
A person’s days are determined;(D)
    you have decreed the number of his months(E)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.(F)
So look away from him and let him alone,(G)
    till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.(H)

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