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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.
19 
“God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis],
And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes.
20 
“I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me;
I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me.

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18 In his great power(A) God becomes like clothing to me[a];
    he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,(B)
    and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(C)

20 “I cry out to you,(D) God, but you do not answer;(E)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.

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Footnotes

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