1But now the younger in time scorn me,…
2The strength of whose hands was to me…
3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in…
4And they ate grass, and barks of trees,…
5Who snatched up these things out of the…
6They dwelt in the desert places of torrents,…
7They pleased themselves among these kind of things,…
8The children of foolish and base men, and…
9Now I am turned into their song, and…
10They abhor me, and flee far from me,…
11For he hath opened his quiver, and hath…
12At the right hand of my rising, my…
13They have destroyed my ways, they have lain…
14They have rushed in upon me, as when…
15I am brought to nothing: as a wind…
16And now my soul fadeth within myself, and…
17In the night my bone is pierced with…
18With the multitude of them my garment is…
19I am compared to dirt, and am likened…
20I cry to thee, and thou hearest me…
21Thou art changed to be cruel toward me,…
22Thou hast lifted me up, and set me…
23I know that thou wilt deliver me to…
24But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand…
25I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted,…
26I expected good things, and evils are come…
27My inner parts have boiled without any rest,…
28I went mourning without indignation; I rose up,…
29I was the brother of dragons, and companion…
30My skin is become black upon me, and…
31My harp is turned to mourning, and my…
