My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.
To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.
And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me.
And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.
and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.
in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;