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For I am full of words; the spirit within me constraineth me.

Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.

I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right:

Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am withered away: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou answerest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will praise him.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress: mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, yea, unto my neighbours exceedingly, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.