7 Two things I ask of You— do not refuse me before I die:
Proverbs 30:7
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Job 13:19–21
19 Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. 20 Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You: 21 Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
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12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers. 13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
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Psalms 71:8–10
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2 Esdras 8:23–25
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Psalms 102:23–25
23 He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days. 24 I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations. 25 In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hand…
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