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| 1 And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock. |
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| 2 Also the power of their hands, why [is it] to me On them hath old age perished. |
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| 3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste, |
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| 4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food. |
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| 5 From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief), |
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| 6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts. |
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| 7 Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together. |
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| 8 Sons of folly even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land. |
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| 9 And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword. |
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| 10 They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit. |
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| 11 Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away. |
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| 12 On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity. |
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| 13 They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.' |
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| 14 As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves. |
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| 15 He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away. |
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| 16 And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction. |
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| 17 At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down. |
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| 18 By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me. |
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| 19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. |
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| 20 I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me. |
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| 21 Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me. |
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| 22 Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest Thou levellest me. |
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| 23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living. |
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| 24 Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety. |
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| 25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard Grieved hath my soul for the needy. |
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| 26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh. |
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| 27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction. |
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| 28 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry. |
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| 29 A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich. |
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| 30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat, |
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| 31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping. |
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