<p class="poetry">The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks,p> <p class="poetry">as I do today.p> <p class="poetry">A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.p>

But whenever raw flesh appears in it<n id="1" /> he will be unclean,

<p class="bodytext">When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

<p class="bodytext">When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

&#8220;Your servant our father is well,&#8221; they replied. &#8220;He is still alive.&#8221; They bowed down in humility.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is alive!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">My protector<n id="2" /> is praiseworthy!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The God who delivers me<n id="4" /> is exalted as king!<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">As for me, I know that my Redeemer<n id="1" /> lives,p> <p class="poetry">and that as the last<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he will stand upon the earth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;As surely as God lives,<n id="1" /> who has denied me justice,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the Almighty, who has made my life bitter<n id="3" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">For<n id="1" /> it has been hiddenp> <p class="poetry">from the eyes of every living creature,p> <p class="poetry">and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.p>

<p class="poetry">I know that you are bringing<n id="1" /> me to death,p> <p class="poetry">to the meeting place for all the living.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is alive!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">My protector<n id="2" /> is praiseworthy!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The God who delivers me<n id="4" /> is exalted as king!<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">You open your hand,p> <p class="poetry">and fill every living thing with the food they desire.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">These people make promises in the name of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">But the fact is,<n id="2" /> what they swear to is really a lie.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why should any living person<n id="1" /> complainp> <p class="poetry">when punished for his sins?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The man<n id="1" /> named his wife Eve,<n id="2" /> because<n id="3" /> she was the mother of all the living.<n id="4" />

The entire lifetime<n id="1" /> of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.<n id="2" />p>

He asked them how they were doing.<n id="1" /> Then he said, &#8220;Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?&#8221;

Then Israel said, &#8220;Enough! My son Joseph is still alive! I will go and see him before I die.&#8221;p>

But truly, as I live,<n id="1" /> all the earth will be filled with the glory of the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">For I raise up my hand to heaven,p> <p class="poetry">and say, &#8216;As surely as I live forever,p>