^{15 Ref} Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

^{16 Ref} And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

^{17 Ref} My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

^{18 Ref} By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

^{19 Ref} He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

^{20 Ref} I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

^{21 Ref} Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

^{22 Ref} Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

^{23 Ref} For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

^{24 Ref} Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

^{25 Ref} Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

^{26 Ref} When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

^{27 Ref} My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

^{28 Ref} I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

^{29 Ref} I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

^{30 Ref} My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

^{31 Ref} My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.