16 I give up! I will not live forever.
Leave me alone,(A) for my days are a breath.[a]

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  1. 7:16 Or are futile

16 I despise my life;(A) I would not live forever.(B)
    Let me alone;(C) my days have no meaning.(D)

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21 Though I am blameless,
I no longer care about myself;
I renounce my life.(A)

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21 “Although I am blameless,(A)
    I have no concern for myself;(B)
    I despise my own life.(C)

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10 For forty years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know my ways.”(A)

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10 For forty years(A) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,(B)
    and they have not known my ways.’(C)

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158 I have seen the disloyal(A) and feel disgust(B)
because they do not keep your word.

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158 I look on the faithless with loathing,(A)
    for they do not obey your word.(B)

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21 Lord, don’t I hate those who hate you,
and detest those who rebel against you?

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21 Do I not hate those(A) who hate you, Lord,
    and abhor(B) those who are in rebellion against you?

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Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive,(A) how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols.(B) They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did,(C) their detestable actions of every kind.

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Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember(A) me—how I have been grieved(B) by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols.(C) They will loathe themselves for the evil(D) they have done and for all their detestable practices.(E)

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43 There you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you have defiled yourself,(A) and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil things you have done.(B)

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43 There you will remember your conduct(A) and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves(B) for all the evil you have done.(C)

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31 “‘You will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good,(A) and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and detestable practices.(B)

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31 Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.(A)

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