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    Who can take what is impure and defiled
        to fashion something pure and pristine?
        No one! We are, after all, so different in nature.
    Since a person’s life is fixed,
        and You are the One who determines the number of his months,
    And You set a limit on the length of her life,
        and since they are incapable of exceeding Your decree,
    The least You can do is turn Your gaze away from him until they pass,
        so that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker.

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Who can bring what is pure(A) from the impure?(B)
    No one!(C)
A person’s days are determined;(D)
    you have decreed the number of his months(E)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.(F)
So look away from him and let him alone,(G)
    till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.(H)

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