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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2What use to me was the strength of their hands? Their vigor had left them. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, 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 human society; people shouted at them as if they were thieves. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They are living on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They bray among the shrubs; they huddle beneath the thistles. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Foolish men, without even a name. They were forced to leave the land. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Now I am mocked by their songs; I have become an object of scorn to them. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They despise me and keep their distance from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Because God has loosened my bowstring and oppressed me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The rabble rise up at my right; they trap my feet and construct their siege ramp against me. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone to help them. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They advance as through a gaping breach; they keep rolling in through the ruins. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Terrors are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Now my life is poured out before me, and days of suffering have seized me. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Night pierces my bones, but my gnawing pains never rest. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18My clothing is distorted with great force; he chokes me by the neck of my garment. |
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 me; when I stand up, you merely look at me. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You have turned against me with cruelty; you harass me with your strong hand. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it; you scatter me in the storm. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Yes, I know that you will lead me to death--the place appointed for all who live. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Yet no one would stretch out his hand against a ruined person when he cries out to him for help because of his distress. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times? 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 came. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of suffering confront me. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I walk about blackened, but not by the sun. I stood in the assembly and cried out for help. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30My skin blackens and flakes off, and my bones burn with fever. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31My lyre is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping. |
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