¹⁷ Night pierces my bones;
    my gnawing pains never rest.^(A)
18 In his great power^(B) God becomes like clothing to me^[a];
    he binds me like the neck of my garment.
¹⁹ He throws me into the mud,^(C)
    and I am reduced to dust and ashes.^(D)

²⁹ I have become a brother of jackals,^(A)
    a companion of owls.^(B)

³⁰ My skin grows black^(A) and peels;^(B)
    my body burns with fever.^(C)