1. I am the gever that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
2. He hath driven me away, and brought me into choshech, but not into ohr.
3. Surely against me is He turned; He turneth His yad against me kol hayom.
4. My basar and my ohr (skin) hath He made old; He hath broken my atzmot.
5. He hath set up seigeworks against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6. He hath set me in dark places, like the mesei olam (long dead).