My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Hebrew, more forcibly, 'my mockers-my friends!' A heart-cutting paradox! (Umbreit.) God alone remains to whom he can look for attestation of his innocence; plaintively, with tearful eye, he supplicates for this (Isaiah 38:14, "I mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward").

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