12 I was at ease, but aHe shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His btarget.
13 His aarrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out bmy gall on the ground.
14 He abreaks through me with breach after breach;
He bruns at me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed asackcloth over my skin
And bthrust my horn in the dust.
16 My face is flushed from aweeping,
bAnd the shadow of death is on my eyelids,
17 Why?—because there is no aviolence in my hands,
And bmy prayer is pure.