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On my 1right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they 2cast up against me their ways of destruction.
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They break up my path; they promote my 3calamity; they need no one to help them.
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As through a wide 4breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
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5Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like 6a cloud.
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"And now my soul is 7poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
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8The night 9racks my bones, and the pain that 10gnaws me takes no rest.
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With great force my garment is 11disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
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God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like 12dust and ashes.
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I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me.
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You have 13turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you 14persecute me.
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15You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
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16For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for 17all living.
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"Yet does not one in a 18heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?
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Did not I 19weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
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But 20when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, 21darkness came.
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My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction 22come to meet me.
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I 23go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in 24the assembly and cry for help.
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I am a brother of 25jackals and a companion of 26ostriches.
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My 27skin turns black and falls from me, and my 28bones burn with heat.
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My 29lyre is 30turned to mourning, and my 31pipe to the voice of those who weep.