^{1 Ref} And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

² Also -- the power of their hands, why `is it' to me? On them hath old age perished.

^{3 Ref} With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

^{4 Ref} Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food.

^{5 Ref} From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

^{6 Ref} In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

^{7 Ref} Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

^{8 Ref} Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

^{9 Ref} And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

^{10 Ref} They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

^{11 Ref} Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

^{12 Ref} On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

^{13 Ref} They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'

^{14 Ref} As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.

^{15 Ref} He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

^{16 Ref} And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

^{17 Ref} At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

^{18 Ref} By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.

^{19 Ref} Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

^{20 Ref} I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

^{21 Ref} Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me.

^{22 Ref} Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.

^{23 Ref} For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living.

^{24 Ref} Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

^{25 Ref} Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

^{26 Ref} When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

^{27 Ref} My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

^{28 Ref} Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.

^{29 Ref} A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

^{30 Ref} My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

^{31 Ref} And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.