Ecclesiastes 6:5
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5 moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.
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Psalm 90:7-9
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7 For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.(A)
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- 90.9 Syr: Heb we bring our years to an end
Psalm 58:8
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8 Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,
like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.(A)
Job 14:1
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14 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,(A)
Job 3:10-13
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10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb
and hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why did I not die at birth,
come forth from the womb and expire?(A)
12 Why were there knees to receive me
or breasts for me to suck?(B)
13 Now I would be lying down and quiet;
I would be asleep; then I would be at rest
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