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11 Mean people come forward to speak against me.
    They ask me things I don’t know anything about.
12 They pay me back with evil, even though I was good to them.
    They leave me like someone who has lost a family member.
13 But when they were sick, I put on the clothing of sadness.
    I made myself humble by going without food.
My prayers for them weren’t always answered.

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11 Ruthless witnesses(A) come forward;
    they question me on things I know nothing about.
12 They repay me evil for good(B)
    and leave me like one bereaved.
13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(C)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(D)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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