⁹ that God would be willing to crush^(A) me,
    to let loose his hand and cut off my life!^(B)

¹⁰ See, I have refined^(A) you, though not as silver;
    I have tested^(B) you in the furnace^(C) of affliction.
¹¹ For my own sake,^(D) for my own sake, I do this.
    How can I let myself be defamed?^(E)
    I will not yield my glory to another.^(F)

¹⁵ so that I prefer strangling and death,^(A)
    rather than this body of mine.^(B)
16 I despise my life;^(C) I would not live forever.^(D)
    Let me alone;^(E) my days have no meaning.^(F)

⁴ For day and night
    your hand was heavy^(A) on me;
my strength was sapped^(B)
    as in the heat of summer.^[a]

²¹ “Have pity on me, my friends,^(A) have pity,
    for the hand of God has struck^(B) me.