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1 - And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

2 - Also--the power of their hands, why <FI>is it<Fi> to me? On them hath old age perished.

3 - With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

4 - Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots <FI>is<Fi> their food.

5 - From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

6 - In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

7 - Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

8 - Sons of folly--even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

9 - And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

10 - They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

11 - Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

12 - On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

13 - They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'

14 - As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.

15 - He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

16 - And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

17 - At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

18 - By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.

19 - Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

20 - I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

21 - Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.

22 - Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest--Thou levellest me.

23 - For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And <FI>to<Fi> the house appointed for all living.

24 - Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

25 - Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

26 - When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

27 - My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

28 - Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.

29 - A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

30 - My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

31 - And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.