²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

¹² Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

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

² When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

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

⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.

¹⁰ When I wept and I fasted, 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 day long.

⁷ For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸ I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

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

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

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

⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

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

²⁰ My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.