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Job 30:18-30

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18“By a great force my garment is distorted;

It ties me up like the collar of my coat.

19“He has thrown me into the mire,

And I have become like dust and ashes.

20“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;

I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

21“You have become cruel to me;

With the strength of Your hand You persecute me.

22“You lift me up to the wind and make me ride it;

And You dissolve me in a storm.

23“For I know that You will bring me to death,

And to the house of meeting for all living.

24“Yet does one in a heap of ruins not reach out with his hand,

Or in his disaster does he not cry out for help?

25“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?

Was my soul not grieved for the needy?

26“When I expected good, evil came;

When I waited for light, darkness came.

27“I am seething within and cannot rest;

Days of misery confront me.

28“I go about mourning without comfort;

I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

29“I have become a brother to jackals,

And a companion of ostriches.

30“My skin turns black on me,

And my bones burn with fever.