Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
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1 But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy my shepherd dogs.
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“But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
2 Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term was lost.
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Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
3 childless in want and famine, they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
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Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
4 Who compass the salt places on the sounding , who had salt for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.
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In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.
5 Thieves have risen up against me,
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They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.
6 whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.
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They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
7 They will cry out among the rustling .
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They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.
8 sons of fools and vile men, name and glory quenched from off the earth.
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A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.
9 But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.
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“And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
10 And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.
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They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
11 For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.
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Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.
12 They have risen up against on the right hand of offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
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On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.
13 My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.
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They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.
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They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 My pains return upon ; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.
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Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
16 Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.
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“And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
17 And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
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Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
18 With great force has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.
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In his great power God becomes like clothing to me ; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.
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He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
20 And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me.
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“I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.
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You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
22 And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.
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You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.
23 For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house for every mortal.
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I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
24 Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
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“Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
25 Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
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Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
26 But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
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Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
27 My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.
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The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
28 I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
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I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
29 I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.
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I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.
30 And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.
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My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
31 My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.
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My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.
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