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

For Job has said, 'I am innocent, 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 thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.

I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; O LORD, heal me, 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.

lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him"; lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

But I am a worm, and no man; scorned by men, and despised by the people.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;

Turn thou to me, and be gracious to me; for I am lonely and afflicted.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief, my soul and my body also.

I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.

I had said in my alarm, "I am driven far from thy sight." But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.

Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your deliverance!"

I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.

I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.