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21 For they will not care what happens to their family
    after they are dead.

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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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You have decided the length of our lives.
    You know how many months we will live,
    and we are not given a minute longer.

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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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27 “Then the rich man said, ‘Please, Father Abraham, at least send him to my father’s home. 28 For I have five brothers, and I want him to warn them so they don’t end up in this place of torment.’

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27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them,(A) so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

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The Futility of Work

18 I came to hate all my hard work here on earth, for I must leave to others everything I have earned. 19 And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? Yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work under the sun. How meaningless!

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18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.(A) 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish?(B) Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

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24 But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever,
    don’t take my life while I am so young!

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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.

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23 But you, O God, will send the wicked
    down to the pit of destruction.
Murderers and liars will die young,
    but I am trusting you to save me.

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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)

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21 They never know if their children grow up in honor
    or sink to insignificance.

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

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