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“Teach me, O Yahweh, about the end of my life.
    Teach me about the number of days I have left
        so that I may know how temporary my life is.
Indeed, you have made the length of my days only a few inches.
    My life span is nothing compared to yours.
    Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Selah
Each person who walks around is like a shadow.
    They are busy for no reason.
        They accumulate riches without knowing who will get them.”

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“Show me, Lord, my life’s end
    and the number of my days;(A)
    let me know how fleeting(B) my life is.(C)
You have made my days(D) a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,(E)
    even those who seem secure.[a]

“Surely everyone goes around(F) like a mere phantom;(G)
    in vain they rush about,(H) heaping up wealth(I)
    without knowing whose it will finally be.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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