- 1. ¶ BUT now they laugh at me, those who are less than I,
- 2. Whose fathers I have disdained, and did not consider them equal to the dogs of my flocks.
- 3. Yea, the strength of their hands, of what use would it have been to me?
- 4. For they had lost their power completely.
- 5. They were forced by bare necessities, like a thief swept off his feet,
- 6. Fleeing to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, in crevices,
- 7. In rocky places, and under bushes.
- 8. The children of fools shall be overthrown together with the children of the wicked; they shall be brought lower than the earth.
- 9. And now I am the subject of their mocking, yea, I have become a byword to them.
- 10. They abhor me, they flee far from me, and do not fail to spit in my face.
- 11. Because they began to deride me and humiliate me, they have also put their bridle in my mouth.
- 12. They rise up against my right hand, they have tripped me up; they have perplexed me through the crookedness of their ways.
- 13. They mar my paths without a cause, they rejoice for what has befallen me; they shall have no helper.
- 14. They shall suffer a great ruin; they shall be broken by the hurricane.
- 15. ¶ For they have brought terror upon me; they have pursued my paths like the wind; and my help has passed away like a cloud.
- 16. And now my soul is weary; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
- 17. In the night my bones are in pain, and my body has no strength in it.
- 18. I have put on my garment; and girded up myself with my robe.
- 19. But they have cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- 20. I cry to thee, and thou dost not answer me; I stand up and thou dost not consider me.
- 21. Thou hast treated me as an enemy to thee; with thy strong hand thou hast restrained me.
- 22. Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and then thou afflictest me, and makest me wretched.
- 23. And yet I know that thou wilt bring me back from death to the meeting place for all living.
- 24. But he will not stretch out his hand against me, and when I cry to him he will save me.
- 25. I have wept for the poor in the daytime, and my soul was grieved for the fatherless.
- 26. But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- 27. My heart was agitated, and did not rest; the days of affliction came upon me.
- 28. I walked mournfully without being resentful; I stood up and wept in the congregation.
- 29. I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
- 30. My skin has shrunk upon me, and my bones are burned as with heat.
- 31. My harp is also turned to mourning, and my song to the voice of those who weep.
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