A person’s days are determined;(A)
    you have decreed the number of his months(B)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.(C)

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Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

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“Show me, Lord, my life’s end
    and the number of my days;(A)
    let me know how fleeting(B) my life is.(C)

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

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26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.(A)

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26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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27 Just as people are destined to die once,(A) and after that to face judgment,(B)

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27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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10 In his hand is the life(A) of every creature
    and the breath of all mankind.(B)

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10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

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29 When you hide your face,(A)
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.(B)

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29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

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21 For what do they care about the families they leave behind(A)
    when their allotted months(B) come to an end?(C)

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21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

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20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

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26 “Here is what these words mean:

Mene[a]: God has numbered the days(A) of your reign and brought it to an end.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:26 Mene can mean numbered or mina (a unit of money).

26 This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

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13 “But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?(A)
    He does whatever he pleases.(B)
14 He carries out his decree against me,
    and many such plans he still has in store.(C)

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13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

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You set a boundary(A) they cannot cross;
    never again will they cover the earth.

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Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

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30 That very night Belshazzar,(A) king(B) of the Babylonians,[a] was slain,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans

30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

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35 All the peoples of the earth
    are regarded as nothing.(A)
He does as he pleases(B)
    with the powers of heaven
    and the peoples of the earth.
No one can hold back(C) his hand(D)
    or say to him: “What have you done?”(E)

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35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

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