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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

018:030:002
Yea,
whereto might the strength of their hands profit me,
in whom old age was perished?

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For want and famine they were solitary;
fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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Who cut up mallows by the bushes,
and juniper roots for their meat.

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They were driven forth from among men,
(they cried after them as after a thief;)

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To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys,
in caves of the earth,
and in the rocks.

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Among the bushes they brayed;
under the nettles they were gathered together.

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They were children of fools,
yea,
children of base men:
they were viler than the earth.

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And now am I their song,
yea,
I am their byword.

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They abhor me,
they flee far from me,
and spare not to spit in my face.

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Because he hath loosed my cord,
and afflicted me,
they have also let loose the bridle before me.

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Upon my right hand rise the youth;
they push away my feet,
and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

018:030:013
They mar my path,
they set forward my calamity,
they have no helper.

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They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters:
in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

018:030:015
Terrors are turned upon me:
they pursue my soul as the wind:
and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

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And now my soul is poured out upon me;
the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

018:030:017
My bones are pierced in me in the night season:
and my sinews take no rest.

018:030:018
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed:
it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

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He hath cast me into the mire,
and I am become like dust and ashes.

018:030:020
I cry unto thee,
and thou dost not hear me:
I stand up,
and thou regardest me not.

018:030:021
Thou art become cruel to me:
with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

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Thou liftest me up to the wind;
thou causest me to ride upon it,
and dissolvest my substance.

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For I know that thou wilt bring me to death,
and to the house appointed for all living.

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Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave,
though they cry in his destruction.

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Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?
was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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When I looked for good,
then evil came unto me:
and when I waited for light,
there came darkness.

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My bowels boiled,
and rested not:
the days of affliction prevented me.

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I went mourning without the sun:
I stood up,
and I cried in the congregation.

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I am a brother to dragons,
and a companion to owls.

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My skin is black upon me,
and my bones are burned with heat.

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My harp also is turned to mourning,
and my organ into the voice of them that weep.