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16 I waste away: I will not live forever;(A)
    let me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 [a]What are human beings, that you make much of them,
    or pay them any heed?
18 You observe them every morning(B)
    and try them at every moment!

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Footnotes

  1. 7:17–18 An ironic allusion to Ps 8:5.

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

17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,(E)
18 that you examine them every morning(F)
    and test them(G) every moment?(H)

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