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14 For he knows how we were made;
    he remembers that we are dust.(A)

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14 for he knows how we are formed,(A)
    he remembers that we are dust.(B)

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Remember that you fashioned me like clay,
    and will you turn me to dust again?(A)

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Remember that you molded me like clay.(A)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?(B)

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19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”(A)

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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[a] returns to God who gave it.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12.7 Or the spirit

and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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47 Remember how short my time is—[a]
    for what vanity you have created all mortals!(A)

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  1. 89.47 Meaning of Heb uncertain

47 Remember how fleeting is my life.(A)
    For what futility you have created all humanity!

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38 Yet he, being compassionate,
    forgave their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
often he restrained his anger
    and did not stir up all his wrath.(A)
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
    a wind that passes and does not come again.(B)

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38 Yet he was merciful;(A)
    he forgave(B) their iniquities(C)
    and did not destroy them.
Time after time he restrained his anger(D)
    and did not stir up his full wrath.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,(E)
    a passing breeze(F) that does not return.

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16 You turn things upside down!
    Shall the potter be regarded as the clay?
Shall the thing made say of its maker,
    “He did not make me,”
or the thing formed say of the one who formed it,
    “He has no understanding”?(A)

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16 You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!(A)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed(B) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,(C)
    “You know nothing”?(D)

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25 Will you frighten a windblown leaf
    and pursue dry chaff?(A)

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25 Will you torment(A) a windblown leaf?(B)
    Will you chase(C) after dry chaff?(D)

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21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
    and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
    you will seek me, but I shall not be.”(A)

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21 Why do you not pardon my offenses
    and forgive my sins?(A)
For I will soon lie down in the dust;(B)
    you will search for me, but I will be no more.”(C)

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My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;
    my skin hardens, then breaks out again.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.[a](A)

“Remember that my life is a breath;
    my eye will never again see good.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.6 Or as the thread runs out

My body is clothed with worms(A) and scabs,
    my skin is broken and festering.(B)

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,(C)
    and they come to an end without hope.(D)
Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;(E)
    my eyes will never see happiness again.(F)

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