16 “And now my life ebbs away;(A)
    days of suffering grip me.(B)
17 Night pierces my bones;
    my gnawing pains never rest.(C)
18 In his great power(D) God becomes like clothing to me[a];
    he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,(E)
    and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(F)

20 “I cry out to you,(G) God, but you do not answer;(H)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;(I)
    with the might of your hand(J) you attack me.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:18 Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothing

16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

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