24. Yet will not one stretch out his yad in a heap of ruin, or cry out for help in his disaster.
25. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my nefesh grieved for the evyon (needy)?
26. When I looked for tov, then rah came unto me; and when I waited for ohr, there came ofel (darkness).
27. My bowels boiled, and rested not; yemei oni met me.
28. I went mourning without the sun; I stood up, and I cried out in the kahal.
29. I am an ach to jackals, and a re'a to owls.
30. My ohr (skin) grows black upon me, and my atzmot are burned with fever.