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I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come."

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace.

Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; even though I am blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty.

"I am blameless; I do not care about myself; I loathe my life.

then I would speak and not fear him, for in myself I am not fearful.

because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand?

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; I am filled with shame, and just look at my misery!

For you say, ‘My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight.'

I also have insight like you; I am not more inferior than you. And who does not know things like these?

I am a laughingstock to my friends: ‘He calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock.

What you know, I myself also know— I am not more inferior than you.

"And he has made me a proverb for the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.

"Look, I cry out, ‘Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry out, but there is no justice.

He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

And when I think of it, I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

Therefore, I am horrified because of his presence; when I consider, I tremble because of him.

"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.

At night I am in great pain; my pains do not take a rest.