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 until I swallow down my spittle?

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

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

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

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;