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  • 17 The night racks my bones,
  • and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
  • 18 With violence he seizes my garment;*
  • he grasps me by* the collar of my tunic.
  • 19 He has cast me into the mire,
  • and I have become like dust and ashes.
  • 20 I cry to you and you do not answer me;
  • I stand, and you merely look at me.

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