But now they mock me,
men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused to put
with my sheep dogs.
Emaciated from poverty and hunger,
they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.
Because God has loosened my[fn] bowstring and oppressed me,
they have cast off restraint in my presence.
Terrors are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
I cry out to you for help, but you do not answer me;
when I stand up, you merely look at me.
Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined person[fn]
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.
Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
I walk about blackened, but not by the sun.[fn]
I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.
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