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nunc autem derident me iuniores tempore quorum non dignabarpatres ponere cum canibus gregis mei

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quorum virtus manuum erat mihi pro nihilo et vita ipsaputabantur indigni

30:3
egestate et fame steriles qui rodebant in solitudinesqualentes calamitate et miseria

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et mandebant herbas et arborum cortices et radixiuniperorum erat cibus eorum

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qui de convallibus ista rapientes cum singula repperissentad ea cum clamore currebant

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in desertis habitabant torrentium et in cavernis terrae velsuper glaream

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qui inter huiuscemodi laetabantur et esse sub sentibusdelicias conputabant

30:8
filii stultorum et ignobilium et in terra penitus nonparentes

30:9
nunc in eorum canticum versus sum et factus sum eisproverbium

30:10
abominantur me et longe fugiunt a me et faciem meamconspuere non verentur

30:11
faretram enim suam aperuit et adflixit me et frenum posuitin os meum

30:12
ad dexteram orientis calamitatis meae ilico surrexeruntpedes meos subverterunt et oppresserunt quasi fluctibus semitissuis

30:13
dissipaverunt itinera mea insidiati sunt mihi etpraevaluerunt et non fuit qui ferret auxilium

30:14
quasi rupto muro et aperta ianua inruerunt super me et admeas miserias devoluti sunt

30:15
redactus sum in nihili abstulisti quasi ventus desideriummeum et velut nubes pertransiit salus mea

30:16
nunc autem in memet ipso marcescit anima mea et possidentme dies adflictionis

30:17
nocte os meum perforatur doloribus et qui me comedunt nondormiunt

30:18
in multitudine eorum consumitur vestimentum meum et quasicapitio tunicae sic cinxerunt me

30:19
conparatus sum luto et adsimilatus favillae et cineri

30:20
clamo ad te et non exaudis me sto et non respicis me

30:21
mutatus es mihi in crudelem et in duritia manus tuaeadversaris mihi

30:22
elevasti me et quasi super ventum ponens elisisti mevalide

30:23
scio quia morti tradas me ubi constituta domus est omniviventi

30:24
verumtamen non ad consumptionem eorum emittis manum tuamet si corruerint ipse salvabis

30:25
flebam quondam super eum qui adflictus erat etconpatiebatur anima mea pauperi

30:26
expectabam bona et venerunt mihi mala praestolabar lucemet eruperunt tenebrae

30:27
interiora mea efferbuerunt absque ulla requie praeveneruntme dies adflictionis

30:28
maerens incedebam sine furore consurgens in turba clamavi

30:29
frater fui draconum et socius strutionum

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cutis mea denigrata est super me et ossa mea aruerunt praecaumate

30:31
versa est in luctum cithara mea et organum meum in vocemflentium

Continued...

030:001
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

030:002
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

030:003
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

030:004
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

030:005
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

030:006
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

030:007
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

030:008
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

030:009
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

030:010
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

030:011
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

030:012
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

030:013
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

030:014
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

030:015
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

030:016
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

030:017
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

030:018
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

030:019
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

030:020
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

030:021
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

030:022
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

030:023
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

030:024
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

030:025
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

030:026
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

030:027
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

030:028
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

030:029
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

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My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

030:031
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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