And Jacob said to Pharaoh, (A)“The days of the years of my [a]pilgrimage are (B)one hundred and thirty years; (C)few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (D)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:9 Lit. sojourning

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.(A) My years have been few and difficult,(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.(C)

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15 For (A)we are [a]aliens and [b]pilgrims before You,
As were all our fathers;
(B)Our days on earth are as a shadow,
And without hope.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:15 sojourners, temporary residents
  2. 1 Chronicles 29:15 transients, temporary residents in an even more temporary sense

15 We are foreigners and strangers(A) in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow,(B) without hope.

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“My(A) days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.

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“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,(A)
    and they come to an end without hope.(B)

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Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but (A)vapor. Selah

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You have made my days(A) a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,(B)
    even those who seem secure.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.

11 My days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like grass.

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11 My days are like the evening shadow;(A)
    I wither(B) away like grass.

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(A)Man is like a breath;
(B)His days are like a passing shadow.

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They are like a breath;(A)
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.(B)

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