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

⁵ A person’s days are determined;^(A)
    you have decreed the number of his months^(B)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.^(C)

²⁴ So I said:
“Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days;
    your years go on^(A) through all generations.

²³ But you, God, will bring down the wicked
    into the pit^(A) of decay;
the bloodthirsty and deceitful^(B)
    will not live out half their days.^(C)

But as for me, I trust in you.^(D)

²¹ If their children are honored, they do not know it;
    if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.^(A)