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.
31. My kinnor (harp) also is turned to evel (mourning), and my flute into the voice of them that weep.