^{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.