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12 When I do good things to help them,
    they pay me back with evil things!
That makes me feel very sad and upset.
13 When they were ill,
    I wore rough clothes,
    and I stopped eating food.
I bent down my head as I prayed for them.
14 I wept as I prayed,
    as I would weep when a friend or my mother had died.

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12 They repay me evil for good(A)
    and leave me like one bereaved.
13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(B)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(C)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
14     I went about mourning(D)
    as though for my friend or brother.
I bowed my head in grief
    as though weeping for my mother.

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