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11 When people do wrong things,
    you warn them and you punish them.
You destroy their valuable things,
    like a moth eats cloth![a]
Yes, our lives are only a breath!
Selah.
12 Lord, please hear my prayer.
    Listen to me when I call to you for help.
Do not turn away from me when I weep.
I need your help,
    like a foreign person who lives away from his home.
I live on earth as a stranger,
    like all my ancestors did.
13 Stop being angry with me,
    so that I can be happy again before I die.

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Footnotes

  1. 39:11 A moth is an insect that may lay its eggs in clothes and spoil the clothes.

11 When you rebuke(A) and discipline(B) anyone for their sin,
    you consume(C) their wealth like a moth(D)
    surely everyone is but a breath.(E)

12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;(F)
    do not be deaf(G) to my weeping.(H)
I dwell with you as a foreigner,(I)
    a stranger,(J) as all my ancestors were.(K)
13 Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”(L)

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