17. "At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest.
18. "By a great force my garment is distorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
19. "He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.
20. "I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
21. "You have become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You persecute me.
22. "You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride; And You dissolve me in a storm.
23. "For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting for all living.
24. "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?
25. "Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
26. "When I expected good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then darkness came.
27. "I am seething within and cannot relax; Days of affliction confront me.