<p class="poetry">For you have said, &#8216;My teaching<n id="1" /> is flawless,p> <p class="poetry">and I am pure in your sight.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">I was eyes for the blindp> <p class="poetry">and feet for the lame;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;And now I have become their taunt song;p> <p class="poetry">I have become a byword<n id="1" /> among them.p>

<p class="poetry">I have become a brother to jackalsp> <p class="poetry">and a companion of ostriches.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I should have been as though I had never existed;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I should have been carriedp> <p class="poetry">right from the womb to the grave!p>

<p class="poetry">My guests<n id="1" /> and my servant girlsp> <p class="poetry">consider<n id="2" /> me a stranger;p> <p class="poetry">I am a foreigner<n id="3" /> in their eyes.p>

<p class="poetry">just as I was in my most productive time,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when God&#8217;s intimate friendship<n id="2" /> was experienced in my tent,p>

<p class="poetry">I was in peace, and he has shattered me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He has seized me by the neck and crushed me.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He has made me his target;p>