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22 I am poor and helpless,
    and I have lost all hope.
23 I am fading away
    like an evening shadow;
I am tossed aside
    like a crawling insect.
24 I have gone without eating,[a]
until my knees are weak,
    and my body is bony.

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Footnotes

  1. 109.24 without eating: See the note at 35.13.

22 For I am poor and needy,
    and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow;(A)
    I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees give(B) way from fasting;(C)
    my body is thin and gaunt.(D)

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