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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping. |
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