16"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.

17The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

18With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.

19God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

20I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me.

21You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.

22You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.

23For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.

24"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?

25Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

26But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

27My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me.

28I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

29I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

30My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

31My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.