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You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins in the light of your countenance.(A)

For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    our years come to an end[a] like a sigh.(B)
10 The days of our life are seventy years
    or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span[b] is only toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 90.9 Syr: Heb we bring our years to an end
  2. 90.10 Cn Compare Gk Syr Jerome Tg: Heb pride

You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins(A) in the light of your presence.(B)
All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.(C)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,(D)
    or eighty,(E) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(F)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(G)

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