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Psalms 39:4-6

you have made my days mere handbreadths

Psalm 39: My heart grew hot within me · Psalms 39

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4Yahweh, make me know my end and the measure of my days—what it is; let me know how fleeting I am.

5Behold, you have made my days mere handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man, though standing firm, is altogether vapor. Selah

6Surely a man walks about as an image; surely people are in turmoil in vain. He heaps things up but does not know who will gather them.

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