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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 38, Verse 6

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My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
King James Version
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
American Standard Version
I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
New English Translation
I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.
World English Bible
I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
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For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.
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I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
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My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
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My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
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But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth.
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Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.
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For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
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For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.