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46 How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire?

47 O [earnestly] remember how short my time is and what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, and frailty You have created all men!

48 What man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Selah [pause, and calmly consider that]!

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46 How long, Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?
    How long will your wrath burn like fire?(A)
47 Remember how fleeting is my life.(B)
    For what futility you have created all humanity!
48 Who can live and not see death,
    or who can escape the power of the grave?(C)

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