Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
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 make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
2 Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term was lost.
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What could I gain from the strength of their hands? All their vigor is gone.
3 childless in want and famine, they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
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Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground,
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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they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of broom.
5 Thieves have risen up against me,
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They are driven out from society; people shout after them as after a thief.
6 whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.
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In the gullies of wadis they must live, in holes in the ground, and in the rocks.
7 They will cry out among the rustling .
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Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.
8 sons of fools and vile men, name and glory quenched from off the earth.
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A senseless, disreputable brood, they have been whipped 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 they mock me in song; I am a byword to them.
10 And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.
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They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
11 For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.
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Because God has loosed my bowstring and humbled me, they have cast 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 hand the rabble rise up; they send me sprawling, and build roads for my ruin.
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 path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.
14 And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.
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As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
15 My pains return upon ; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.
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Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away 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 soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
17 And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
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The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no 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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With violence he seizes my garment; he grasps me by the collar of my tunic.
19 And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.
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He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like 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 to you and you do not answer me; I stand, and 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 have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.
22 And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.
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You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of 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 that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all 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 one does not turn against the needy, when in disaster they cry for help.
25 Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
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Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was 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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But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
27 My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.
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My inward parts are in turmoil, and are never still; days of affliction come to meet me.
28 I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
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I go about in sunless gloom; 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 am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
30 And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.
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My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
31 My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.
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My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
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