Job 10:20

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Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

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

As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,

withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.

Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!"