19:2 How long will ye torment my nefesh, and crush me with words?
19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me; ye have no bushah that ye cause me astonishment.
19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine meshugah (error) remaineth with myself.
19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves above me, and use against me my cherpah (reproach, humiliation),
19:6 Have da’as now that Eloah hath put me in the wrong, and hath encompassed me with his matzud (net).
19:7 Behold, when I cry chamas, I am not heard; I cry for help, but there is no mishpat.
19:8 He hath fenced around my way that I cannot pass, and set choshech in my paths.
19:9 He hath stripped me of my kavod, and taken the ateret from my rosh.
19:10 He breaks me down on every side till I am gone, and mine tikveh hath He uprooted like an etz.
19:11 He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as His tzar (enemy).
19:12 His forces come together, and raise up their seige ramp against me, and encamp around my ohel.
19:13 He hath put achai (my brethren) far from me, and mine acquaintances are verily estranged from me.
19:14 My kerov (near and dear) have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15 They that dwell in mine bais, and my maidservants, count me for a zar; I am a nokhri in their sight.
19:16 I summoned avdi, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
19:17 My ruach is repulsive to my isha, loathsome to bnei beten of mine.
19:18 Even avilim (little children) treat me with contempt; I appear, and they ridicule me.
19:19 All my metei sod (confidants) detest me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
19:20 My etzem cleaveth to my ohr (skin) and to my basar, and I am escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
19:21 Chanuni, chanuni, O ye my friends; for the yad Eloah hath touched me.
19:22 Why do ye persecute me like El, not satisfied with my basar?
19:23 Oh that my words were but written! O that they were recorded in a sefer!
19:24 That they were engraved with a pen of barzel and with oferet (lead) in the tzur forever!
19:25 For Ani yadati Goeli chai (I know that my Redeemer liveth), and that he shall stand up at Acharon (at the Last) upon aphar (dust, the earth);
19:26 And though after my ohr (skin) has been thus destroyed, yet from my basar I shall see Eloah;
19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold and no other; my heart faints within me.
19:28 But ye think, How we will persecute him, seeing the shoresh (root) of the matter is found in me?
19:29 Be ye afraid of the cherev; for wrath bringeth the avonot (punishments) of the cherev, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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