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But now, God, you have surely worn me out.
    You have made all my company desolate.
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.
    My leanness rises up against me.
    It testifies to my face.
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me.
    He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
    My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
10 They have gaped on me with their mouth.
    They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
    They gather themselves together against me.
11 God delivers me to the ungodly,
    and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart.
    Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces.
    He has also set me up for his target.
13 His archers surround me.
    He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
    He pours out my bile on the ground.
14 He breaks me with breach on breach.
    He runs at me like a giant.

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Surely he[a] has now exhausted me.
You have devastated my entire family.
You have shriveled me up[b]—it has become a witness;
my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
His anger tears at me, and he harasses(A) me.
He gnashes his teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
10 They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;(B)
they join themselves together against me.
11 God hands me over to the unjust;[c]
he throws me to the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he shattered me;
he seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as his target;(C)
13 his archers[d] surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.
14 He breaks through my defenses again and again;[e]
he charges at me like a warrior.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:7 Or it
  2. 16:8 Or have seized me; Hb obscure
  3. 16:11 LXX, Vg; MT reads to a boy
  4. 16:13 Or arrows
  5. 16:14 Lit through me, breach on breach