²² Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

²⁶ For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

⁵ But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

¹⁶ If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

²⁵ Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

¹¹ God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

¹³ His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁴ He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

³¹ If the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

²³ and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.

³ Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.