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Job 30:17-27 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

17. Night chews on my bones,causing endless torment,

18. and God has shrunk my skin,choking me to death.

19. I have been thrown in the dirtand now am dirt myself.

20. I beg God for help,but there is no answer;and when I stand up,he simply stares.

21. God has turned brutal,

22. stirring up a stormto toss me about.

23. Soon he will send me hometo the world of the dead,where we all must go.

24. No one refuses help to others,when disaster strikes.

25. I mourned for the poorand those who suffered.

26. But when I beg for reliefand light,all I receive are disasterand darkness.

27. My stomach is tied in knots;pain is my daily companion.

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