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16 
“And now my soul is poured out within me;
The days of affliction have seized me.
17 
“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
18 
“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;
It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.

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16 “And now my life ebbs away;(A)
    days of suffering grip me.(B)
17 Night pierces my bones;
    my gnawing pains never rest.(C)
18 In his great power(D) God becomes like clothing to me[a];
    he binds me like the neck of my garment.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:18 Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothing