<p class="poetry">You clothed<n id="1" /> me with skin and fleshp> <p class="poetry">and knit me together<n id="2" /> with bones and sinews.p>

<p class="poetry">For, when I think<n id="1" /> about this, I am terrified<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and my body feels a shudder.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">then his flesh is restored<n id="1" /> like a youth&#8217;s;p> <p class="poetry">he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then a breath of air<n id="1" /> passes<n id="2" /> by my face;p> <p class="poetry">it makes<n id="3" /> the hair of my flesh stand up.p>

<p class="poetry">Is my strength like that of stones?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or is my flesh made of bronze?p>

<p class="poetry">My body<n id="1" /> is clothed<n id="2" /> with worms<n id="3" /> and dirty scabs;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">my skin is broken<n id="5" /> and festering.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Do you have eyes of flesh,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or do you see<n id="2" /> as a human being sees?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why<n id="1" /> do I put myself in peril,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and take my life in my hands?p>

<p class="poetry">Only his flesh has pain for himself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and he mourns for himself.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My bones stick to my skin and my flesh;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have escaped<n id="2" /> alive<n id="3" /> with only the skin of my teeth.p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you pursue me like God does?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Will you never be satiated with my flesh?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">And after my skin has been destroyed,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">yet in my flesh<n id="2" /> I will see God,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">His flesh wastes away from sight,p> <p class="poetry">and his bones, which were not seen,p> <p class="poetry">are easily visible.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">all flesh would perish togetherp> <p class="poetry">and human beings would return to dust.p>

<p class="poetry">The folds<n id="1" /> of its flesh are tightly joined;p> <p class="poetry">they are firm on it, immovable.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">in whose hand<n id="1" /> is the life<n id="2" /> of every creaturep> <p class="poetry">and the breath of all the human race.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">if<n id="1" /> the members of my household<n id="2" /> have never said,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;If only there were<n id="4" /> someonep> <p class="poetry">who has not been satisfied from Job&#8217;s<n id="5" /> meat!&#8217; &#8211;p>

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh,<n id="1" /> and he will no doubt<n id="2" /> curse you to your face!&#8221;p>