The challenges and difficulties of our personal fragility, the calumny and the persecution, like raging, evil waves, assault us
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and attempt to sink us; the weather is dark and stormy, the shore and the harbor appear
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distant and unsafe, our efforts at rowing seem to fail and all seems lost to us.
El desafío y la dificultad de nuestra fragilidad personal, la calumnia y la persecución, como olas rabiosas y nocivas,
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nos agreden e intentan sumergirnos; el tiempo es sombrío y tempestuoso, la orilla y el puerto nos
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parecen lejanos e inseguros, nuestras fuerzas para remar parecen disminuir y todo nos parece perdido.