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15 Wretched and close to death from my youth up,
    I suffer your terrors; I am desperate.[a](A)

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  1. 88.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain

For the arrows of the Almighty[a] are in me;
    my spirit drinks their poison;
    the terrors of God are arrayed against me.(A)

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  1. 6.4 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

44 In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]][a](A)

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  1. 22.44 Other ancient authorities lack 22.43 and 22.44

The Shepherd Struck, the Flock Scattered

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
    against the man who is my associate,”
            says the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered;
    I will turn my hand against the little ones.(A)

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10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction.
When you make his life an offering for sin,[a]
    he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.(A)

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  1. 53.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain

He was despised and rejected by others;
    a man of suffering[a] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces[b]
    he was despised, and we held him of no account.(A)

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  1. 53.3 Or a man of sorrows
  2. 53.3 Or as one who hides his face from us

14 For all day long I have been plagued
    and am punished every morning.(A)

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14 I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
    it is melted within my breast;(A)
15 my mouth[a] is dried up like a potsherd,
    and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
    you lay me in the dust of death.(B)

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  1. 22.15 Cn: Heb strength

11 My days are past; my plans are broken off,
    the desires of my heart.(A)
12 They make night into day;
    ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’[a]
13 If I look for Sheol as my house,
    if I spread my couch in darkness,(B)
14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(C)
15 where then is my hope?
    Who will see my hope?(D)
16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
    Shall we descend together into the dust?”(E)

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  1. 17.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Job Prays for Relief

17 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
    the grave is ready for me.(A)

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11 “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;
    I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
    I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.(A)
12 Am I the Sea or the Dragon
    that you set a guard over me?(B)
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
    my couch will ease my complaint,’
14 then you scare me with dreams
    and terrify me with visions,(C)
15 so that I would choose strangling
    and death rather than this body.
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    Let me alone, for my days are a breath.(D)

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