⁵ You meet those who gladly do right,
    those who remember you in your ways.
But you were angry, and we sinned;
    because you hid yourself we transgressed.^[a](A)

²⁰ You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
    will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
    you will bring me up again.^(A)

¹⁹ They are also chastened with pain upon their beds
    and with continual strife in their bones,^(A)
20 so that their lives loathe bread
    and their appetites dainty food.^(B)
21 Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
    and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.^(C)
22 Their souls draw near the Pit
    and their lives to those who bring death.^(D)
23 Then, if there should be for one of them an angel,
    a mediator, one of a thousand,
    one who declares a person upright,^(E)
24 and he is gracious to that person and says,
    ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit;
    I have found a ransom;^(F)
25 let his flesh become fresh with youth;
    let him return to the days of his youthful vigor,’^(G)
26 then he prays to God and is accepted by him;
    he comes into his presence with joy,
and God^[a] repays him for his righteousness.^(H)
27     That person sings to others and says,
‘I sinned and perverted what was right,
    and it was not paid back to me.^(I)
28 He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,
    and my life shall see the light.’^(J)