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“Oh that I might have my request,
    that God would grant the thing that I long for,
even that it would please God to crush me;
    that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10 Let it still be my consolation,
    yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare,
    that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
    What is my end, that I should be patient?
12 Is my strength the strength of stones?
    Or is my flesh of bronze?
13 Isn’t it that I have no help in me,
    that wisdom is driven away from me?

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“O that I might have my request
    and that God would grant my desire,(A)
that it would please God to crush me,
    that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!(B)
10 This would be my consolation;
    I would even exult[a] in unrelenting pain,
    for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.(C)
11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
    And what is my end, that I should be patient?(D)
12 Is my strength the strength of stones,
    or is my flesh bronze?
13 In truth I have no help in me,
    and any resource is driven from me.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain