20 “I cry out to you,(A) God, but you do not answer;(B)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;(C)
    with the might of your hand(D) you attack me.(E)
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(F)
    you toss me about in the storm.(G)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,(H)
    to the place appointed for all the living.(I)

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(J)
    when he cries for help in his distress.(K)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(L)
    Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(M)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.(N)

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20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me;
    I stand, and you merely look at me.(A)
21 You have turned cruel to me;
    with the might of your hand you persecute me.(B)
22 You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it,
    and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.(C)
23 I know that you will bring me to death,
    to the house appointed for all living.(D)

24 “Surely one does not turn against the needy,[a]
    when in disaster they cry for help.[b](E)
25 Did I not weep for those whose day was hard?
    Was not my soul grieved for the poor?(F)
26 But when I looked for good, evil came,
    and when I waited for light, darkness came.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 30.24 Heb ruin
  2. 30.24 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain

20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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