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May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm it.
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But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
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When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
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They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;
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He moves mountains without their knowing it and overturns them in his anger.
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He would not let me catch my breath but would overwhelm me with misery.
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You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.
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Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
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He leads priests away stripped and overthrows officials long established.
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My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.
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You overpower them once for all, and they are gone; you change their countenance and send them away.
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Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,
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He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
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God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
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“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
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Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
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In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.
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He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;
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Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.
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They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
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He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
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Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
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“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
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Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
