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15 So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my [a]pains.
16 I have (A)rejected everything; I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, (B)for my days are but a breath.
17 (C)What is man that You magnify him,
And that You set Your heart on him,

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  1. Job 7:15 Lit bones

15 so that I prefer strangling and death,(A)
    rather than this body of mine.(B)
16 I despise my life;(C) I would not live forever.(D)
    Let me alone;(E) my days have no meaning.(F)

17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,(G)

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15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

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