<p class="poetry">Many are appalled when they see me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but you are my secure shelter.p>

<p class="poetry">I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My own brothers treat me like a stranger;p> <p class="poetry">they act as if I were a foreigner.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I was ignorant<n id="1" /> and lacked insight;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I was as senseless as an animal before you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am like an owl<n id="1" /> in the wilderness;p> <p class="poetry">I am like a screech owl<n id="2" /> among the ruins.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am disdained by them.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">When they see me, they shake their heads.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For<n id="1" /> I am like a wineskin<n id="2" /> dried up in smoke.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I do not forget your statutes.p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, in your good favor you made me secure.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Then you rejected me<n id="2" /> and I was terrified.p>

<p class="poetry">I was once young, now I am old.p> <p class="poetry">I have never seen a godly man abandoned,p> <p class="poetry">or his children<n id="1" /> forced to search for food.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They treat me like<n id="1" /> those who descend into the grave.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I am like a helpless man,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Because of all my enemies, people disdain me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my neighbors are appalled by my suffering<n id="2" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">those who know me are horrified by my condition;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">those who see me in the street run away from me.p>