Job 21:21

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For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

'And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,

If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

I say, 'My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations are Thine years.

and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen --