²¹ Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,^(A) once hidden, now stick out.^(B)

²⁰ I am nothing but skin and bones;^(A)
    I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.^[a]

¹¹ At the end of your life you will groan,
    when your flesh and body are spent.

³ For my days vanish like smoke;^(A)
    my bones^(B) burn like glowing embers.
⁴ My heart is blighted and withered like grass;^(C)
    I forget to eat my food.^(D)
5 In my distress I groan aloud^(E)
    and am reduced to skin and bones.

¹¹ When you rebuke^(A) and discipline^(B) anyone for their sin,
    you consume^(C) their wealth like a moth^(D)—
    surely everyone is but a breath.^(E)

³ When I kept silent,^(A)
    my bones wasted away^(B)
    through my groaning^(C) all day long.
⁴ For day and night
    your hand was heavy^(D) on me;
my strength was sapped^(E)
    as in the heat of summer.^[a]

¹⁵ My mouth^[a] is dried up like a potsherd,^(A)
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;^(B)
    you lay me in the dust^(C) of death.

¹⁶ Dogs^(D) surround me,
    a pack of villains encircles me;
    they pierce^[b](E) my hands and my feet.
¹⁷ All my bones are on display;
    people stare^(F) and gloat over me.^(G)

⁸ You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
    my gauntness^(A) rises up and testifies against me.^(B)

²² They feel but the pain of their own bodies^(A)
    and mourn only for themselves.^(B)”