⁷Surely now God has worn me out;

he has1 made desolate all my company.

⁸And he has shriveled me up,

which is a witness against me,

and my leanness has risen up against me;

it testifies to my face.

⁹He has torn me in his wrath and hated me;

he has gnashed his teeth at me;

my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

¹⁰Men have gaped at me with their mouth;

they have struck me insolently on the cheek;

they mass themselves together against me.

¹¹God gives me up to the ungodly

and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

¹²I was at ease, and he broke me apart;

he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;

he set me up as his target;

¹³his archers surround me.

He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;

he pours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁴He breaks me with breach upon breach;

he runs upon me like a warrior.

¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin

and have laid my strength in the dust.

¹⁶My face is red with weeping,

and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

¹⁷although there is no violence in my hands,

and my prayer is pure.

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