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Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.

Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.

(16-13) I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.

(16-23) For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.

As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him I am made pensive with fear.

Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, and said: I am younger in days, and you are more ancient, therefore hanging down my head, I was afraid to shew you my opinion.

For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels straiteneth me.

I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain, preaching his commandment.

(6-3) Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

(12-5) Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:

(21-7) But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.