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"I've heard many of those things before. You are terrible at comforting me! |
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Your speeches go on forever. Won't they ever end? What's wrong with you? Why do you keep on arguing? |
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If you and I changed places, I could say the same things you are saying. I could make fine speeches against you. I could shake my head at you. |
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But what I might say would give you hope. My words of comfort would help you. |
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"If I speak, it doesn't help me. And if I keep quiet, my pain doesn't go away. |
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God has worn me out completely. He has destroyed my whole family. |
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People can see the condition he has put me in. My thin body stands as a witness against me. |
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God is angry with me. He attacks me and tears me up. He grinds his teeth at me. He stares at me as if he were my enemy. |
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People make fun of me. They slap my face and laugh at me. All of them join together against me. |
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God has turned me over to sinful people. He has handed me over to them. |
12
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Everything was going well with me. But he broke me into pieces like a clay pot. He grabbed me by the neck and crushed me. He has taken aim at me. |
13
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He shoots his arrows at me from all sides. Without pity, he stabs me in the kidneys. He spills my insides on the ground. |
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He smashes through me as if I were a wall. He rushes at me like a fighting man. |
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"I've sewed black cloth over my skin. All I can do is sit here in the dust. |
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My face is red from crying. I have deep circles under my eyes. |
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But I haven't harmed anyone. My prayers to God are pure. |
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"Earth, please don't cover up my blood! May God always hear my cry for help! |
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Even now my witness is in heaven. The one who speaks up for me is there. |
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My go-between is my friend as I pour out my tears to God. |
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He makes his appeal to God to help me as a man begs someone to help his friend. |
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"Only a few years will pass by. Then I'll go on a journey I won't return from. |
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