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15 My throat prefers to be choked;
    my bones welcome death.
16 I ·hate [L reject] my life; I don’t want to live forever.
    Leave me alone, because my days have no meaning.

17 “Why do you make people so important
    and ·give them so much attention [L set your heart on them; C contrast Ps. 8:4]?

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15 so that I prefer strangling and death,(A)
    rather than this body of mine.(B)
16 I despise my life;(C) I would not live forever.(D)
    Let me alone;(E) my days have no meaning.(F)

17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,(G)

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