⁶ But I am a worm^(A) and not a man,
    scorned by everyone,^(B) despised^(C) by the people.

⁷ All who see me mock me;^(A)
    they hurl insults,^(B) shaking their heads.^(C)

² He grew up before him like a tender shoot,^(A)
    and like a root^(B) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance^(C) that we should desire him.

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.