20 I cry to you for help and you do not answer me;
    I stand, and you only look at me.
21 You have (A)turned cruel to me;
    with the might of your hand you (B)persecute me.
22 (C)You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it,
    and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
23 (D)For I know that you will bring me to death
    and to the house appointed for (E)all living.

24 “Yet does not one in a (F)heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
    and in his disaster cry for help?[a]
25 Did not I (G)weep for him whose day was hard?
    Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
26 But (H)when I hoped for good, evil came,
    and when I waited for light, (I)darkness came.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:24 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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