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20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me.
    I stand up, and you gaze at me.
21 You have turned to be cruel to me.
    With the might of your hand you persecute me.
22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it.
    You dissolve me in the storm.
23 For I know that you will bring me to death,
    to the house appointed for all living.

24 “However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall?
    Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
25 Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble?
    Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
26 When I looked for good, then evil came.
    When I waited for light, darkness came.

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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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