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73:13-15 My Bitter Feelings. The singer unveils his inner turmoil: feeling that it has been worthless to practice faithfulness (all in vain have I kept my heart clean). The faithful are stricken, all the day long, in contrast to the arrogant, who "are not stricken like the rest of mankind" (v. 5). At the same time, being pious, the singer recognizes that to put his bitter feelings into words would have betrayed the generation of your children, i.e., would undermine others' faith.