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Connecting Statement:
Job begins to ask a rhetorical question. He is saying that God lives forever but people live only for a short time, so God should not worry about Job's sins. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
your days like the days of mankind ... your years like the years of people
These two phrases have nearly the same meaning. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
your days
"the number of your days"
your years
"the number of your years"