14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.(A)

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20 “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara,”[a] she answered, “for the Almighty(A) has made me very bitter.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:20 = Bitter; see v. 2

20 Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,(A)

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