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11 Malicious witnesses rise up;
    they ask me about things I do not know.(A)
12 They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is forlorn.(B)
13 But as for me, when they were sick,
    I wore sackcloth;
    I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed[a] on my bosom,(C)

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  1. 35.13 Or My prayer turned back

11 Ruthless witnesses(A) come forward;
    they question me on things I know nothing about.
12 They repay me evil for good(B)
    and leave me like one bereaved.
13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(C)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(D)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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