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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They lived in the most dangerous of ravines, in holes in the ground, and among rocks. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They abhor me—they keep their distance from me; but they don't refrain from spitting at the sight of me. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they've cast off all restraints in my presence. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They tear up my pathways; they profit from my destruction, and they need no help to do this! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You changed toward me, and now you're cruel to me; with your mighty hand you are persecuting me; |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Haven't I wept for the one who is going through hard times? Haven't I grieved for the needy? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But my harp is in mourning; my flute plays only songs for those who are weeping." Job Asserts His Moral Innocence |
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