6. In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7. Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.
8. They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were scourged out of the land.
9. And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.
10. They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11. For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me, and they have cast off the bridle before me.
12. Upon my right hand rise the rabble; they thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13. They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, even men that have no helper.
14. As through a wide breach they come: in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.
15. Terrors are turned upon me, they chase mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
16. And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17. In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
18. By the great force of my disease is my garment disfigured: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19. He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20. I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou lookest at me.
21. Thou art turned to be cruel to me: with the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.
22. Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it; and thou dissolvest me in the storm.