30:9 “Now I have become their song; yes, I am a byword with them.
30:10 They loathe me, they stand aloof from me; they don’t hesitate to spit in my face!
30:11 For God has loosened my bowstring and humbled me; they throw off restraint in my presence.
30:12 At my right the street urchins attack, pushing me from place to place, besieging me with their ways of destruction,
30:13 breaking up my path, furthering my calamity — even those who have no one to help them.
30:14 They move in as through a wide gap; amid the ruin they roll on in waves.
30:15 Terrors tumble over me, chasing my honor away like the wind; my [hope of] salvation passes like a cloud.
30:16 “So now my life is ebbing away, days of grief have seized me.
30:17 At night pain pierces me to the bone, so that I never rest.
30:18 My clothes are disfigured by the force [of my disease]; they choke me like the collar of my coat.
30:19 [God] has thrown me into the mud; I have become like dust and ashes.
30:20 “I call out to you [God], but you don’t answer me; I stand up to plead, but you just look at me.
30:21 You have turned cruelly against me; with your powerful hand you keep persecuting me.
30:22 You snatch me up on the wind and make me ride it; you toss me about in the tempest.
30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, the house assigned to everyone living.
30:24 “Surely [God] wouldn’t strike at a ruin, if in one’s calamity one cried out to him for help.
30:25 Didn’t I weep for those who were in trouble? Didn’t I grieve for the needy?
30:26 Yet when I hoped for good, what came was bad; when I expected light, what came was darkness.
30:27 My insides are in turmoil; they can’t find rest; days of misery confront me.
30:28 I go about in sunless gloom, I rise in the assembly and cry for help.
30:29 I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.
30:30 My skin is black and falling off me, and my bones are burning with heat.
30:31 So my lyre is tuned for mourning, my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
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