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Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I.

A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

(But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: -- Young I [am] in days, and ye [are] age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion.

Lo, I [am], according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

`Pure [am] I, without transgression, Innocent [am] I, and I have no iniquity.

I am not afraid of myriads of people, That round about they have set against me.

Favour me, O Jehovah, for I [am] weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

He hath said in his heart, `I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

Lest mine enemy say, `I overcame him,' Mine adversaries joy when I am moved.

I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because -- at my right hand I am not moved.

I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Thy form!

The `Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.

And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

Also -- from presumptuous ones keep back Thy servant, Let them not rule over me, Then am I perfect, And declared innocent of much transgression,

And I [am] a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people.