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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,(A)

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  1. 35.13 Or My prayer turned back

13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(A)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(B)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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14     as though I grieved for a friend or a brother;
I went about as one who laments for a mother,
    bowed down and in mourning.

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14     I went about mourning(A)
    as though for my friend or brother.
I bowed my head in grief
    as though weeping for my mother.

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15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

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15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.(A)

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