- "If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
- "But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
- "You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
- "His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.
- "They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
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- "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
- Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
- You have bound me--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
- God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
- Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
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