¹² All was well with me, but he shattered me;
    he seized me by the neck and crushed me.^(A)
He has made me his target;^(B)

¹⁶ “And now my life ebbs away;^(A)
    days of suffering grip me.^(B)

¹⁰ His victims are crushed,^(A) they collapse;
    they fall under his strength.

¹³ I waited patiently^(A) till dawn,
    but like a lion he broke^(B) all my bones;^(C)
    day and night^(D) you made an end of me.