- "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
 - Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
 - You have bound me--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
 - God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
 - Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
			
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- "If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
 - "But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
 - "You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
 - "His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.
 - "They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
			
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