I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
He runs stubbornly against him, with his heavily embossed shield.
God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:
When his lamp shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
I was not at ease, neither had I quiet, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison thereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you set a watch over me?
I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Though you have severely broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Surely against me has he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
My flesh and my skin has he made old: he has broken my bones.
When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and tear all their shoulders: and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their backs to shake.
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.