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Job 16:7

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Truly, God, you took away my strength.\par You destroyed my whole family.\par

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I hate my own life.\par So I will complain freely.\par My soul is very bitter,\par so now I will speak.\par

My friend speaks for me\par while my eyes pour out tears to God.\par

“God has made my brothers hate me.\par I am a stranger to all my friends.\par

Bad people stop making trouble\par when they are in the grave.\par And people who are tired\par find rest in the grave.\par

I don’t have power to help myself now.\par Why? Because success has been taken away from me.\par

I hate my life—I give up.\par I don’t want to live forever.\par Leave me alone!\par My life means nothing!\par

Month after frustrating month\par has gone by.\par I have had night after night of suffering.\par

The Lord my Master gave me the ability to teach. So now I teach these sad people. Every morning he wakes me and teaches me like a student.

So I have started to punish you.\par I will destroy you because of your sins.\par