20 “Why(A) is light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the (B)bitter of soul,

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20 “Why is light given to those in misery,
    and life to the bitter of soul,(A)

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Jeremiah’s Dejection

10 (A)Woe is me, my mother,
That you have borne me,
A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole [a]earth!
I have neither lent for interest,
Nor have men lent to me for interest.
Every one of them curses me.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:10 Or land

10 Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,(A)
    a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!(B)
I have neither lent(C) nor borrowed,
    yet everyone curses(D) me.

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