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"If I speak, ^(C1)my pain is not lessened, And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?

-"But now He has ^(C1)exhausted me; You have laid ^(C2)waste all my group of loved ones.

-"And You have shriveled me up, ^(F1)(C1)It has become a witness; And my ^(C2)infirmity rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

-"His anger has ^(C1)torn me and ^(F1)hunted me down, He has ^(C2)gnashed at me with His teeth; My ^(C3)enemy ^(F2)glares at me.

-"They have ^(C1)gaped at me with their mouths, They have ^(F1)(C2)slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have ^(C3)massed themselves against me.

-"God hands me over to criminals, And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

-"I was at ease, but ^(C1)He shattered me, And He has grasped me by my neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His ^(C2)target.

-"His ^(C1)arrows surround me. He splits my kidneys open without mercy; He pours out ^(C2)my bile on the ground.

-"He ^(C1)breaks through me with breach after breach; He ^(C2)runs at me like a warrior.

-"I have sewed ^(C1)sackcloth over my skin, And ^(C2)thrust my horn in the dust.

-"My face is flushed from ^(C1)weeping, ^(C2)And deep darkness is on my eyelids,