1. I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2. He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3. Surely against me has he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
4. My flesh and my skin has he made old: he has broken my bones.
5. He has besieged me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.
6. He has set me in dark places, like they that are long dead.
7. He has hedged me in, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
8. Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
9. He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
10. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11. He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.