²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.

¹² Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

²⁷ `in' labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

² And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.

⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

¹⁰ When I wept, `and chastened' my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.

⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

⁷ For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸ I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

¹⁴ I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed `as' with the drought of summer. Selah

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

²⁰ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.