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.
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 heart.
14. I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15. He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
16. He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.