1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.   refused

2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?   how

3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.   gaunt

4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.   food

5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.   cried out

8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.   of no name/reputation/honor

9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.   refrain

11Because He has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.   bowstring; restraint

12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.   flood

15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.

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

17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.   distorted

19He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

20I cry to You, and You do not hear me: I stand up, and You regard me not.

21You are become cruel to me: with Your strong hand You oppose Yourself against me.

22You lifted me up to the wind; You cause me to ride upon it, and dissolve my substance.   destroy; possessions, wealth

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

24However he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

26When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.   insides churned; confronted

28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.   wild beasts

30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.