24. Lammah (why) hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?
25. Wilt Thou frighten away a leaf driven to and fro? And wilt Thou pursue the dry kash (straw, chaff)?
26. For Thou writest down merorot (bitter things) against me, and makest me to inherit the avonot of my neurim (youth).
27. Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and observest kol orkhot (paths, ways) of me; Thou settest a mark upon the soles of my raglayim,
28. Around one who wastes away as a rotten thing, as a beged (garment) that is moth eaten.