²⁴ My knees are weak ^(A)through fasting;
    my ^(B)body has become gaunt, with no fat.

⁴ My heart is ^(A)struck down like grass and ^(B)has withered;
    I ^(C)forget to eat my bread.
⁵ Because of my loud groaning
    my ^(D)bones cling to my flesh.

¹⁰ When I wept and humbled^[a] my soul with fasting,
    it became my reproach.

¹³ But I, ^(A)when they were sick—
    I ^(B)wore sackcloth;
    I ^(C)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed ^(D)with head bowed^[a] on my chest.
¹⁴     I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
    I ^(E)bowed down in mourning.