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What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.

yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.

"And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.

I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

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

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.

You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'

"Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Be gracious to me, O Lord , for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord , for my bones are troubled.

I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.