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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. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}

Yea, whereto {might} the strength of their hands {profit} me, in whom old age was perished?

For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}

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

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

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

To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, {in} caves of the earth, and {in} the rocks. {caves: Heb. holes}

{They were} children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. {base...: Heb. men of no name}

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. {and...: Heb. and withhold not spittle from}

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

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

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

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

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. {my soul: Heb. my principal one}

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

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

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

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me {not}.

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

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. {become...: Heb. turned to be cruel} {thy...: Heb. the strength of thy hand}

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride {upon it}, and dissolvest my substance. {substance: or, wisdom}

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

Howbeit he will not stretch out {his} hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. {grave: Heb. heap}

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

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was {not} my soul grieved for the poor? {in trouble: Heb. hard of day?}

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

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

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {owls: or, ostriches}

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

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