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BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
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But now they mock
me,
men
younger than I am
, whose fathers I would
have
refused
to entrust
with my
sheep
dogs.
But now they that
are
younger than I have
me
in
derision
, Whose fathers I disdained
to set
with the
dogs of
my
flock
.
What
use
to
me
was
the strength of their hands, since
their
vigor
had
left
them
?
Yea,
the strength of their hands, whereto
should
it
profit
me
? Men
in
whom
ripe
age
is
perished.
Gaunt from
poverty
and hunger,
they gnawed
the dry land
, and
the desolate
wasteland
by
night
.
They
are
gaunt with
want
and famine;
They gnaw
the dry ground
, in
the gloom
of
wasteness
and
desolation
.
They plucked
mallow
among
the shrubs,
and the roots of the broom tree
were
their food.
They pluck
salt-wort
by
the bushes;
And the roots of the broom are
their food.
They were
banished
from among
men ,
shouted
down
like
thieves,
They are
driven
forth
from the
midst
`of
men ';
They
cry
after
them
as
after
a
thief;
so that they lived
on
the
slopes
of
the
wadis
, among
the
rocks
and
in holes in
the ground
.
So that they dwell
in
frightful
valleys
, In holes of
the earth
and
of
the
rocks
.
They
cried
out
among the shrubs
and
huddled
beneath
the nettles.
Among the bushes
they
bray;
Under
the nettles they
are
gathered
together
.
A
senseless
and
nameless
brood
, they were driven
off
the land.
`They
are'
children
of
fools
, yea,
children
of
base
men;
They were scourged
out
of
the land.
And now they
mock
me
in
song;
I have
become a byword among
them.
And now I am
become their
song,
Yea,
I
am
a byword unto
them.
They abhor me and
keep
far
from me ;
they
do
not hesitate
to spit in my face.
They abhor me ,
they
stand
aloof
from me ,
And
spare
not to spit in my face.
Because
God
has
unstrung
my
bow
and afflicted me ,
they have cast off restraint
in
my
presence
.
For
he
hath
loosed
his
cord,
and afflicted me ;
And
they have cast off the
bridle
before
me
.
The
rabble
arises
at
my right; they lay
snares
for
my feet and build
siege
ramps
against me.
Upon
my right hand
rise
the
rabble
; They thrust
aside
my feet ,
And they
cast
up
against me their
ways
of
destruction
.
They tear
up
my path ;
they profit
from
my destruction
, with
no one
to
restrain
them
.
They mar
my path ,
They set
forward
my calamity
, `Even'
men
that
have
no helper
.
They
advance
as through a wide breach ;
through
the
ruins
they keep
rolling
in.
As through a wide breach they come:
In the
midst
of
the
ruin
they
roll
themselves
`upon
me'
.
Terrors are turned loose
against
me; they drive
away
my
dignity
as by
the wind ,
and my prosperity
has
passed like
a cloud.
Terrors are turned upon
me; They chase
mine
honor
as the wind ;
And my welfare
is
passed away
as
a cloud.
And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip
me.
And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have
taken
hold
upon
me.
Night pierces
my bones, and my
gnawing
pains never
rest.
In
the
night season
my bones are
pierced
in
me
, And the
`
pains '
that
gnaw
me
take
no
rest.
With
great force He
grasps
my garment; He
seizes
me by
the collar of my tunic
.
By
`God's'
great force is
my garment disfigured
; It
bindeth
me about
as
the collar of my coat
.
He throws
me into the mud
, and I have
become like dust and ashes.
He hath
cast
me into the mire
, And I am
become like dust and ashes.
I cry out
to
You
for
help
, but
You
do
not answer ;
when
I stand up, You
merely
look
at me.
I cry unto
thee
, and
thou
dost
not answer me:
I stand up, and
thou
gazest
at me.
You
have
ruthlessly
turned on
me; You
oppose
me
with Your
strong
hand.
Thou
art
turned to
be
cruel
to
me; With the
might
of
thy
hand thou
persecutest
me
.
You
snatch
me up into
the wind and
drive
me before
it; You
toss
me about
in the storm.
Thou
liftest
me up to
the wind ,
thou
causest
me to
ride
`upon
it '
; And
thou
dissolvest
me in the storm.
Yes,
I know that You
will
bring me down
to death, to the place
appointed for all the
living.
For
I know that thou
wilt
bring me to death, And
to the house
appointed for all living.
Yet
no
one stretches
out his
hand to
a
ruined
man
when
he
cries
for
help
in his distress.
Howbeit
doth
not
one stretch
out the
hand in his fall?
Or
in
his
calamity
therefore
cry
for
help?
Have
I
not wept
for those
in trouble? Has
my soul not
grieved for the needy?
Did
not I
weep
for him
that
was
in trouble? Was
not
my soul grieved for the needy?
But
when I hoped
for good, evil came; when I looked
for light, darkness fell
.
When I looked
for good, then
evil came; And
when I waited
for light, there
came
darkness.
I
am
churning
within
and cannot
rest
; days of affliction confront
me.
My
heart
is
troubled,
and resteth
not
; Days of affliction are
come
upon
me.
I go about
blackened,
but
not
by
the sun .
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
I go mourning
without
the sun :
I stand up in the assembly ,
and cry for help.
I have
become
a brother of
jackals, a companion of
ostriches.
I am
a brother to
jackals, And
a companion to
ostriches.
My skin grows
black and peels
, and my bones burn
with fever
.
My skin is
black ,
`
and falleth'
from
me
, And my bones are
burned
with heat
.
My harp is
tuned
to mourning and my flute
to
the sound
of weeping
.
Therefore
is
my harp `turned'
to mourning ,
And my pipe
into
the voice
of them
that
weep
.
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