5. For my iniquities have walked over my head, and they have been like a heavy burden weighing upon me.
6. My sores have putrefied and been corrupted before the face of my foolishness.
7. I have become miserable, and I have been bent down, even to the end. I have walked with contrition all day long.
8. For my loins have been filled with illusions, and there is no health in my flesh.
9. I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.
10. O Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning before you has not been hidden.
11. My heart has been disturbed. My strength has abandoned me, and the light of my eyes has abandoned me, and it is not with me.
12. My friends and my neighbors have drawn near and stood against me. And those who were next to me stood far apart. And those who sought my soul used violence.
13. And those who sought evil accusations against me were speaking emptiness. And they practiced deceitfulness all day long.
14. But, like someone deaf, I did not hear. And I was like someone mute, not opening his mouth.