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But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Maar nou lag hulle my uit, mans wat jonger is as ek; wie se vaders ek sou verag gehad het om by die honde van my trop te sit.
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Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
Ja, waartoe sou die krag van hulle hande my wees, in wie die ouderdom vergaan het?
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For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Vir gebrek en hongersnood was hulle eensaam; vlugtend in die wildernis in vorige tyd van verwoesting en verwoesting.
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
Wat malvabosse by die bosse pluk, en jeneverbessie-wortels vir hulle voedsel.
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They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)
Hulle is uit die midde uitgedrywe, (hulle het agter hulle geskreeu soos agter ‚'n dief;)
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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
Om in die klowe van die valleie, in gate van die aarde, en in die rotse te woon.
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Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Onder die bosse het hulle gebrul; onder die netels is hulle bymekaargemaak.
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[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Hulle was kinders van dwase, ja, kinders van basterde: hulle is laer as die aarde.
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And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
En nou is ek hulle lied, ja, ek is hulle bywoord.
10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Hulle verafsku my, hulle vlug ver van my af, en spaar nie om in my aangesig te spoeg nie.
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Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Omdat Hy my koord losgemaak het, en my verdruk het, het hulle ook die toom voor my afgegooi.
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Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Op my regterhand staan die jeug op; hulle stoot my voete weg, en hulle werp teen my die paaie van hulle vernietiging op.
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They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Hulle mar my pad, hulle sit vorentoe my onheil, hulle het geen helper nie.
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They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
Hulle het gekom soos by ‚'n wye bres in, in die midde van die verwoesting het hulle op my gerol.
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Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Verskrikkinge is teen my gekeer, hulle vervolg my siel soos die wind: en my welvaart gaan weg soos ‚'n wolk.
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And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
En nou is my siel oor my uitgestort; die dae van benoudheid het my aangegryp.
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My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
My gebeente is in die nag in my deurboor: en my senuwees neem geen rus nie.
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By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Deur die groot krag van my siekte is my kleed verander: dit bind my soos die kraag van my rok.
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He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Hy het my in die modder gegooi, en ek is soos stof en as geword.
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I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].
Ek roep tot U, en U antwoord my nie: ek staan op, en U let nie op my nie.
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Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
U is wreed teen my geword: met u sterk hand weerstaan U my.
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Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
U hef my op na die wind; U laat my daarop ry, en los my substansie op.
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For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
Want ek weet dat U my tot die dood sal bring, en tot die huis wat vir al die lewendes aangewys is.
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Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Hoebeit Hy sal nie sy hand uitsteek na die graf nie, al roep hulle in sy vernietiging.
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Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?
Het ek nie geween vir hom wat in benoudheid was nie? was nie my siel bedroef vir die arme nie?
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When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Toe ek na die goeie uitgesien het, toe het die kwaad gekom: en toe ek op die lig gewag het, toe het duisternis gekom.
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My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
My ingewande het gekook, en nie stilgebly nie: die dae van benoudheid het my voorkom.
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I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
Ek het swart gegaan, maar nie van die son nie: ek het in die vergadering opgestaan, en geroep.
29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Ek is ‚'n broer van die jakkalse, en ‚'n metgesel van die volstruise.
30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
My vel is swart op my, en my gebeente is verbrand van hitte.
31
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
My harp is ook tot rou verander, en my orrel tot die stem van dié wat ween.