^{24 Ref} Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

^{25 Ref} Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

^{26 Ref} For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

^{27 Ref} And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

^{28 Ref} Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.