But now [they that are] younger <H6810> <H3117> than I have me in derision, <H7832> whose fathers <H0001> I would have disdained <H3988> to have set <H7896> with the dogs <H3611> of my flock. <H6629>
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Yea, whereto <H4100> [might] the strength <H3581> of their hands <H3027> [profit] me, in whom old age <H3624> was perished? <H0006>
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For want <H2639> and famine <H3720> [they were] solitary; <H1565> fleeing <H6207> into the wilderness <H6723> in former time <H0570> desolate <H7722> and waste. <H4875>
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Who cut up <H6998> mallows <H4408> by the bushes, <H7880> and juniper <H7574> roots <H8328> [for] their meat. <H3899>
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They were driven forth <H1644> from among <H1460> [men], (they cried <H7321> after them as [after] a thief;) <H1590>
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To dwell <H7931> in the cliffs <H6178> of the valleys, <H5158> [in] caves <H2356> of the earth, <H6083> and [in] the rocks. <H3710>
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Among the bushes <H7880> they brayed; <H5101> under the nettles <H2738> they were gathered together. <H5596>
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[They were] children <H1121> of fools, <H5036> yea, children <H1121> of base men: <H8034> they were viler <H5217> than the earth. <H0776>
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And now am I their song, <H5058> yea, I am their byword. <H4405>
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They abhor <H8581> me, they flee far <H7368> from me, and spare <H2820> not to spit <H7536> in my face. <H6440>
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Because he hath loosed <H6605> my cord, <H3499> and afflicted <H6031> me, they have also let loose <H7971> the bridle <H7448> before <H6440> me.
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Upon [my] right <H3225> [hand] rise <H6965> the youth; <H6526> they push away <H7971> my feet, <H7272> and they raise up <H5549> against me the ways <H0734> of their destruction. <H0343>
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They mar <H5420> my path, <H5410> they set forward <H3276> my calamity, <H1942> <H1962> they have no helper. <H5826>
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They came <H0857> [upon me] as a wide <H7342> breaking in <H6556> [of waters]: in <H8478> the desolation <H7722> they rolled <H1556> themselves [upon me].
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Terrors <H1091> are turned <H2015> upon me: they pursue <H7291> my soul <H5082> as the wind: <H7307> and my welfare <H3444> passeth away <H5674> as a cloud. <H5645>
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And now my soul <H5315> is poured out <H8210> upon me; the days <H3117> of affliction <H6040> have taken hold upon me. <H0270>
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My bones <H6106> are pierced <H5365> in me in the night season: <H3915> and my sinews <H6207> take no rest. <H7901>
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By the great <H7230> force <H3581> [of my disease] is my garment <H3830> changed: <H2664> it bindeth me about <H0247> as the collar <H6310> of my coat. <H3801>
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He hath cast <H3384> me into the mire, <H2563> and I am become like <H4911> dust <H6083> and ashes. <H0665>
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I cry <H7768> unto thee, and thou dost not hear <H6030> me: I stand up, <H5975> and thou regardest <H0995> me [not].
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Thou art become <H2015> cruel <H0393> to me: with thy strong <H6108> hand <H3027> thou opposest <H7852> thyself against me.
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Thou liftest me up <H5375> to the wind; <H7307> thou causest me to ride <H7392> [upon it], and dissolvest <H4127> my substance. <H8454> <H7738>
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For I know <H3045> [that] thou wilt bring <H7725> me [to] death, <H4194> and [to] the house <H1004> appointed <H4150> for all living. <H2416>
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Howbeit he will not stretch out <H7971> [his] hand <H3027> to the grave, <H1164> though they cry <H7769> in his destruction. <H6365>
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Did not I weep <H1058> for him that was in trouble? <H7186> <H3117> was [not] my soul <H5315> grieved <H5701> for the poor? <H0034>
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When I looked <H6960> for good, <H2896> then evil <H7451> came <H0935> [unto me]: and when I waited <H3176> for light, <H0216> there came <H0935> darkness. <H0652>
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My bowels <H4578> boiled, <H7570> and rested <H1826> not: the days <H3117> of affliction <H6040> prevented <H6923> me.
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I went <H1980> mourning <H6937> without the sun: <H2535> I stood up, <H6965> [and] I cried <H7768> in the congregation. <H6951>
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I am a brother <H0251> to dragons, <H8577> and a companion <H7453> to owls. <H1323> <H3284>
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My skin <H5785> is black <H7835> upon me, and my bones <H6106> are burned <H2787> with heat. <H2721>
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My harp <H3658> also is [turned] to mourning, <H0060> and my organ <H5748> into the voice <H6963> of them that weep. <H1058>