God hath shut me up with the unjust man: and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
I have sinned. What shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? Why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself?
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old he hath broken my bones.
(Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not I only give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles,)
And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.
When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst break, and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brokest, and weakenest all their loins.
When his lamp shined over my head: and I walked by his light in darkness?
He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.
For he shall crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken.
Have I not dissembled? Have I not kept silence? Have I not been quiet? And indignation is come upon me.
They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek; they are filled with my pains.
For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit: and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
God hath softened my heart: and the Almighty hath troubled me.
Aleph. Only against me he hath turned and turned again his hand all the day.