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| [1]But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs. |
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| [2]Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost. |
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| [3]One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought. |
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| [4]Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger. |
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| [5]Thieves have risen up against me, |
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| [6]whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs. |
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| [7]They will cry out among the rustling bushes. |
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| [8]They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth. |
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| [9]But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word. |
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| [10]And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face. |
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| [11]For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence. |
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| [12]They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction. |
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| [13]My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons. |
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| [14]And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains. |
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| [15]My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud. |
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| [16]Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me. |
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| [17]And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed. |
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| [18]With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat. |
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| [19]And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes. |
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| [20]And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me. |
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| [21]They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand. |
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| [22]And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety. |
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| [23]For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal. |
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| [24]Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me. |
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| [25]Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress. |
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| [26]But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me. |
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| [27]My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me. |
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| [28]I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly. |
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| [29]I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches. |
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| [30]And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat. |
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| [31]My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping. |
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