¹⁵ I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

⁴⁴ And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.

⁷ Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

¹⁰ And the Lord was pleased ... see a seed, long life, ... will do well in his hand. ...

³ Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

¹⁴ For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

¹⁴ I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

¹⁵ My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

¹² They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

¹³ If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

¹⁴ If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

¹⁵ Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

¹⁶ Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

¹ My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

¹¹ So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

¹³ When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

¹⁴ Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

¹⁵ So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

¹⁶ I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.