¹⁴ Just as there were many who were astonished at him^[a]
    —so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of mortals—^(A)

⁶ I gave my back to those who struck me
    and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face
    from insult and spitting.^(A)

² For he grew up before him like a young plant
    and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.^(A)
3 He was despised and rejected by others;
    a man of suffering^[a] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces^[b]
    he was despised, and we held him of no account.^(B)

¹⁷ I can count all my bones.
They stare and gloat over me;