MKJV(i)
1 I the man have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
2 He has led me and made me go in darkness and not into light.
3 Surely He turned against me; He turns His hand all the day.
4 He has wasted my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.
5 He built against me and has circled me with bitterness and hardship.
6 He has made me live in dark places, like the dead of old.
7 He has set a fence around me and I cannot go out; He has made my bronze chain heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
9 He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.
10 He was a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in secret places.
11 He has turned my ways aside and torn me in pieces. He made me desolate.
12 He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He has caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.
14 I was a mockery to all my people, their song all the day.
15 He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.
16 He also broke my teeth with gravel; He has covered me in the ashes.
17 And You cast off my soul from peace; I have forgotten blessedness.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope from Jehovah are gone.
19 Remember my affliction and my wandering, as wormwood and bitterness.