17. My bones are pierced in me at night,And my gnawing pains take no rest.
18. By great force my garment is disfigured;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, but You do not answer me;I stand up, and You regard me.
21. But You have become cruel to me;With the strength of Your hand You oppose me.
22. You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it;You spoil my success.
23. For I know that You will bring me to death,And to the house appointed for all living.
24. “Surely He would not stretch out His hand against a heap of ruins,If they cry out when He destroys it.