¹⁵ From my youth^(A) I have suffered^(B) and been close to death;
    I have borne your terrors^(C) and am in despair.^(D)

⁴ The arrows^(A) of the Almighty^(B) are in me,^(C)
    my spirit drinks^(D) in their poison;^(E)
    God’s terrors^(F) are marshaled against me.^(G)

¹⁴ All day long I have been afflicted,^(A)
    and every morning brings new punishments.

¹⁰ Yet it was the Lord’s will^(A) to crush^(B) him and cause him to suffer,^(C)
    and though the Lord makes^[a] his life an offering for sin,^(D)
he will see his offspring^(E) and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper^(F) in his hand.

³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,^(A) and familiar with pain.^(B)
Like one from whom people hide^(C) their faces
    he was despised,^(D) and we held him in low esteem.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are out of joint.^(A)
My heart has turned to wax;^(B)
    it has melted^(C) within me.
¹⁵ My mouth^[a] is dried up like a potsherd,^(D)
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;^(E)
    you lay me in the dust^(F) of death.

¹¹ My days have passed,^(A) my plans are shattered.
    Yet the desires of my heart^(B)
12 turn night into day;^(C)
    in the face of the darkness light is near.^(D)
13 If the only home I hope for is the grave,^(E)
    if I spread out my bed^(F) in the realm of darkness,^(G)
14 if I say to corruption,^(H) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,^(I) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
¹⁵ where then is my hope—^(J)
    who can see any hope for me?^(K)
16 Will it go down to the gates of death?^(L)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”^(M)