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1 But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs.

2 Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost.

3 One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

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4 Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

5 Thieves have risen up against me,

6 whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.

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7 They will cry out among the rustling bushes.

8 They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.

9 But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

10 And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.

11 For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.

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12 They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.

13 My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.

14 And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.

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15 My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

16 Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.

17 And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

18 With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

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19 And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.

20 And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me.

21 They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.

22 And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.

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23 For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

24 Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.

25 Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.

26 But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

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27 My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.

28 I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.

29 I am become a brother of *Gr. sirens monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

30 And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones [Alex. +sunefruth] are burned with heat.

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31 My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.