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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. |
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