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20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed;
    they perish forever without any regarding it.(A)

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they will perish forever like their own dung;
    those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’

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12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
    like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
    he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;(A)
13     I cry for help[a] until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
    from day to night you bring me to an end.(B)

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  1. 38.13 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain

The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
    but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)

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though the wicked sprout like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever,(A)

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You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
    like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
    in the evening it fades and withers.(B)

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13 Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again,
    before I depart and am no more.”(A)

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36 Again I[a] passed by, and they were no more;
    though I sought them, they could not be found.(A)

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  1. 37.36 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb he

17 Their memory perishes from the earth,
    and they have no name in the street.(A)

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22 For when a few years have come,
    I shall go the way from which I shall not return.(A)

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20 You prevail forever against them, and they pass away;
    you change their countenance and send them away.(A)

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14 If mortals die, will they live again?
    All the days of my service I would wait
    until my release should come.(A)

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    comes up like a flower and withers,
    flees like a shadow and does not last.(A)

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20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David but not in the tombs of the kings.(A)

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They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.(A)

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