Surely, God, you have worn me out;(A)
    you have devastated my entire household.(B)

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But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

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But now He has (A)worn me out;
You (B)have made desolate all my company.

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Surely now God has worn me out;
    (A)he has[a] made desolate all my company.

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  1. Job 16:7 Hebrew you have; also verse 8

But now He has (A)exhausted me;
You have laid (B)waste all my group of loved ones.

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I am worn out(A) from my groaning.(B)

All night long I flood my bed with weeping(C)
    and drench my couch with tears.(D)

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I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

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I am weary with my groaning;
[a]All night I make my bed swim;
I drench my couch with my tears.

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  1. Psalm 6:6 Or Every night

I am (A)weary with my (B)moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.

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I am (A)weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I flood my couch with (B)my tears.

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My tears(A) have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”(B)

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My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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(A)My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
(B)“Where is your God?”

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(A)My tears have been my food
    day and night,
(B)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

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My (A)tears have been my food day and night,
While they (B)say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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Record my misery;
    list my tears on your scroll[a](A)
    are they not in your record?(B)

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  1. Psalm 56:8 Or misery; / put my tears in your wineskin

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

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You number my wanderings;
Put my tears into Your bottle;
(A)Are they not in Your book?

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You have kept count of my tossings;[a]
    (A)put my tears in your bottle.
    (B)Are they not in your book?

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  1. Psalm 56:8 Or wanderings

You (A)have taken account of my [a]miseries;
Put my (B)tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in (C)Your book?

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  1. Psalm 56:8 Or wanderings

Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness

Again I looked and saw all the oppression(A) that was taking place under the sun:

I saw the tears of the oppressed—
    and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
    and they have no comforter.(B)

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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

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The Uselessness of Selfish Toil

Then I returned and considered all the (A)oppression that is done under the sun:

And look! The tears of the oppressed,
But they have no comforter—
[a]On the side of their oppressors there is power,
But they have no comforter.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 4:1 Lit. At the hand

Evil Under the Sun

(A)Again I (B)saw all (C)the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had (D)no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

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The Evils of Oppression

Then I looked again at all the acts of (A)oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold, I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had (B)no one to comfort them; and power was on the side of their oppressors, but they had no one to comfort them.

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