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 keep looking at me and let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping.

([Psalm of David]) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away from my deliverance, so far away from the words of my moaning?

When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.

I am numb and completely devastated. I roar because my heart is filling with anguish.

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

Even when I send up a cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.

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