20. My bones stick to my skin and my flesh;I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
21. Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me,for the hand of God has struck me.
22. Why do you pursue me like God does?Will you never be satiated with my flesh?
23. “O that my words were written down,O that they were written on a scroll,
24. that with an iron chisel and with leadthey were engraved in a rock forever!
25. As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.
26. And after my skin has been destroyed,yet in my flesh I will see God,
27. whom I will see for myself,and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another.My heart grows faint within me.
28. If you say, ‘How we will pursue him,since the root of the trouble is found in him!’
29. Fear the sword yourselves,for wrath brings the punishment by the sword,so that you may know that there is judgment.”