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20 (A)Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

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20 People who have wealth but lack understanding(A)
    are like the beasts that perish.(B)

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Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and (A)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely (B)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

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You have made my days(A) a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,(B)
    even those who seem secure.[a]

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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.

nevertheless, like men (A)you shall die,
    and fall like any prince.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 82:7 Or fall as one man, O princes

But you will die(A) like mere mortals;
    you will fall like every other ruler.”

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