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You will cause him to die as your creation and give him life as your work.
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If, therefore, you will destroy with a simple command one who was fashioned at your command with so much labor, why was he made?
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Now I will surely speak: You know best about the sum total of humanity, but what about your people who grieve me,
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and about your inheritance because of which I lament, and about Israel, on whose account I am sad, and about the seed of Jacob because of which I am disturbed?
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Therefore, I will pray before you for myself and for them, because I see the defects of we who live on earth,