My (A)eye has grown dim from vexation,
    and all my members are like (B)a shadow.

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16 My face is red with weeping,
    and on my eyelids is (A)deep darkness,

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Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am (A)in distress;
    (B)my eye is wasted from grief;
    my soul and my body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
    and (C)my bones waste away.

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My (A)eye wastes away because of grief;
    it grows weak because of all my foes.

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17 For this (A)our heart has become sick,
    for these things (B)our eyes have grown dim,

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12 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his (A)vain[a] life, which he passes like (B)a shadow? For who can tell man what will be (C)after him under the sun?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:12 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)

23 I am gone like (A)a shadow at evening;
    I am (B)shaken off like a locust.

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And he has shriveled me up,
    which is (A)a witness against me,
and my (B)leanness has risen up against me;
    it testifies to my face.

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