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21 For what do they care for their household after them,
    when the number of their months is cut off?

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Since their days are determined,
    and the number of their months is known to you,
    and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,(A)

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27 He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.’

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18 I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to my successor,(A) 19 and who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

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24 “O my God,” I say, “do not take me away
    at the midpoint of my life,
you whose years endure
    throughout all generations.”(A)

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23 But you, O God, will cast them down
    into the lowest pit;
the bloodthirsty and treacherous
    shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in you.(A)

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21 Their children come to honor, and they do not know it;
    they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.(A)

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