Job 3:24

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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?

You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.

For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;

"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.