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1 Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
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1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
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2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
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3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
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3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
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4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
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4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
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5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.
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5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
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6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
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7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
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7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
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8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
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8 Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
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9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
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9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
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10 Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
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