I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.