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Psalms 39:6
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no more than a shadow. All we do is for nothing; we gather wealth, but don't know who will get it.
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"Lord, how long will I live? When will I die? Tell me how soon my life will end."
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How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,
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no more than a shadow. All we do is for nothing; we gather wealth, but don't know who will get it.
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What, then, can I hope for, Lord? I put my hope in you.
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Save me from all my sins, and don't let fools make fun of me.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.