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| [1]But now they that are younger than I, mock me: yea, they whose fathers I have refused to set with the dogs of my flocks. |
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| [2]For whereto should the strength of their hands have served me, seeing age perished in them? |
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| [3]For poverty and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness, which is dark, desolate and waste. |
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| [4]They cut up nettles by the bushes, and the juniper roots was their meat. |
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| [5]They were chased forth from among men: they shouted at them, as at a thief. |
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| [6]Therefore they dwelt in the clefts of rivers, in the holes of the earth and rocks. |
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| [7]They roared among the bushes, and under the thistles they gathered themselves. |
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| [8]They were the children of fools and the children of villains, which were more vile than the earth. |
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| [9]And now am I their song, and I am their talk. |
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| [10]They abhor me, and flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. |
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| [11]Because that God hath loosed my cord and humbled me, they have loosed the bridle before me. |
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| [12]The youth rise up at my right hand: they have pushed my feet, and have trode on me as on the paths of their destruction. |
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| [13]They have destroyed my paths: they took pleasure at my calamity, they had none help. |
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| [14]They came as a great breach of waters, and under this calamity they come on heaps. |
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| [15]Fear is turned upon me: and they pursue my soul as the wind, and mine health passeth away as a cloud. |
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| [16]Therefore my soul is now poured out upon me, and the days of affliction have taken hold on me. |
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| [17]It pierceth my bones in the night, and my sinews take no rest. |
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| [18]For the great vehemency is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the collar of my coat. |
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| [19]He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like ashes and dust. |
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| [20]When I cry unto thee, thou dost not hear me, neither regardest me, when I stand up. |
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| [21]Thou turnest thyself cruelly against me, and art enemy unto me with the strength of thine hand. |
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| [22]Thou takest me up and causest me to ride upon the wind, and makest my strength to fail. |
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| [23]Surely I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all the living. |
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| [24]Doubtless none can stretch his hand unto the grave, though they cry in his destruction. |
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| [25]Did not I weep with him that was in trouble? Was not my soul in heaviness for the poor? |
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| [26]Yet when I looked for good, evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. |
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| [27]My bowels did boil without rest: for the days of affliction are come upon me. |
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| [28]I went mourning without sun: I stood up in the congregation and cried. |
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| [29]I am a brother to the dragons, and a companion to the ostriches. |
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| [30]My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. |
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| [31]Therefore mine harp is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voice of them that weep. |
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