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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 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