⁴ My heart is blighted and withered like grass;^(A)
    I forget to eat my food.^(B)
5 In my distress I groan aloud^(C)
    and am reduced to skin and bones.

¹⁰ When I weep and fast,^(A)
    I must endure scorn;

²⁴ My knees give^(A) way from fasting;^(B)
    my body is thin and gaunt.^(C)
25 I am an object of scorn^(D) to my accusers;
    when they see me, they shake their heads.^(E)