⁷Surely now God has worn me out;

ihe has1 made desolate all my company.

⁸And he has shriveled me up,

which is ja witness against me,

and my kleanness has risen up against me;

it testifies to my face.

⁹He has ltorn me in his wrath mand hated me;

he has ngnashed his teeth at me;

my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

¹⁰Men have ogaped at me with their mouth;

they have pstruck me insolently on the cheek;

they qmass 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 rtarget;

¹³his sarchers surround me.

He slashes open my kidneys tand does not spare;

he upours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁴He breaks me with vbreach upon breach;

he wruns upon me like a warrior.

¹⁵I have sewed xsackcloth upon my skin

and have laid ymy strength zin the dust.

¹⁶My face is red with weeping,

and on my eyelids is adeep darkness,

¹⁷although there is no bviolence in my hands,

and my prayer is pure.

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