Thomson(i)
1 I am a man who have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath
2 against me. He hath seized me and dragged me into darkness and there is no light.
3 But still he turned his hand against me all the day long.
4 He hath made my flesh and my skin old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He built up against me and encompassed my head and afflicted it with pain:
6 in dark mansions he placed me like the dead of old.
7 He built up against me so that I cannot get out. He made my chain heavy.
8 Though I scream and cry, he shut out my prayer.
9 He walled up my ways; he blocked up my paths;
10 he terrified me. He was as a bear lying in wait; to me he was like a lion in secret coverts.
11 He pursued me when I fled and stopped me. He removed me quite out of sight.
12 He bent his bow and set me up as a mark for his arrow.
13 He poured into my reins the darts of his quiver.
14 I became a subject of laughter to all my people; their song all the day long.
15 He glutted me with worm wood; he gave me a large draught of gall,
16 and broke my teeth with gravel. He drenched me with ashes.
17 He removed my soul far from peace. I forgot prosperity;
18 so my strength was destroyed and the hope which I had from the Lord.
19 I recollected because of mine affliction. When by reason of persecution, my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;