But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
1Nanso afei wɔn a wɔsua sene me di me ho fɛw, wɔn agyanom a anka mempɛ sɛ mede wɔn bɛka me nnwankuo akraman ho.Under pastoral review
2Aane, mfasoɔ bɛn na wɔn nsa mu ahoɔden bɛba me so, wɔn a wɔn mmerewaberɛ asɛe?Under pastoral review
3Ohia ne ɛkɔm enti wɔyɛɛ ankonam; wɔdwane kɔɔ ɛserɛ so, beaeɛ a berɛ bi ada mpan na ayɛ amamfɔ.Under pastoral review
4Wɔn a wɔtwa nhahan wɔ nkyɛkyerɛ ho, ne yunipa ntini yɛ wɔn aduane.Under pastoral review
5Wɔpamoo wɔn firii nnipa mu, (wɔteateaam wɔn akyi sɛdeɛ wɔyɛ ɔkorɔmfoɔ;)Under pastoral review
6Sɛ wɔbɛtena mmɔnhwa mu abodan mu, asase mu abon mu, ne abotan mu.Under pastoral review
7Wɔsu wɔ nkyɛkyerɛ mu; wɔboaboaa wɔn ano wɔ nkasɛɛ ase.Under pastoral review
8Wɔyɛ nkwaseafoɔ mma, aane, nnipa a wɔnni din mma: wɔyɛ aniwu sene asase.Under pastoral review
9Na afei meyɛ wɔn dwom, aane, meyɛ wɔn kasabɛbuo.Under pastoral review
10Wɔkyiri me, wɔdwane firi me nkyɛn kɔ akyiri, na wɔnnkame ntasuo wɔ m'anim.Under pastoral review
11Efisɛ wasane me homa, na waha me, wɔn nso wɔasane nnareka wɔ m'anim.Under pastoral review
12Me nifa so na mmabunu sɔre; wɔpia me nan, na wɔma wɔn ɔsɛeɛ akwan so tia me.Under pastoral review
13Wɔsɛe m'ɛkwan, wɔma m'amanehunu kɔ anim, wɔnni ɔboafoɔ.Under pastoral review
14Wɔbaa me so sɛ nsuo a ɛbu tɛtrɛɛ: amamfɔ mu na wɔpirapiraa wɔn ho baa me so.Under pastoral review
15Ahunahuna adane baa me so: wɔtaa me kra sɛ mframa: na me yiedie twam sɛ omununkum.Under pastoral review
16Na afei wɔahwie me kra agu me so; amanehunu nna asɔ me mu.Under pastoral review
17Wɔwɔ me nnompe mu anadwo berɛ mu: na me ntini nnye ahome.Under pastoral review
18Ɔyareɛ no tumi kɛseɛ enti wɔasesa m'atadeɛ: ɛkyekyere me ho sɛ me batakari kɔn mu.Under pastoral review
19Wato me atwene atɛkyɛ mu, na mayɛ sɛ mfuturo ne nsõ.Under pastoral review
20Mesu frɛ wo, na wontie me: megyina hɔ, na wonhwɛ me.Under pastoral review
21Woadane atirimuɔdenfoɔ ama me: wode wo nsa denden tia me.Under pastoral review
22Woma me so kɔ mframa mu; woma metena so, na wonane m'agyapadeɛ.Under pastoral review
23Efisɛ menim sɛ wode me bɛkɔ owuo mu, ne efie a wɔahyɛ ama ateasefoɔ nyinaa.Under pastoral review
24Nanso ɔrentene ne nsa nkɔ damena mu, ɛwom sɛ wɔsu wɔ ne ɔsɛeɛ mu deɛ.Under pastoral review
25Mansu amma deɛ ɔwɔ ɔhaw mu anaa? me kra werɛ anho amma ohiani anaa?Under pastoral review
26Ɛberɛ a mehwɛɛ papa kwan, ɛnna bɔne baeɛ: na ɛberɛ a metwɛn hann, esum baeɛ.Under pastoral review
27M'ayamu huruiɛ, na ɛnnyeɛ ahome: amanehunu nna dii m'anim.Under pastoral review
28Mekɔɔ awerɛhoɔ mu a awia nni hɔ: megyinaa hɔ, na mesu frɛeɛ wɔ asafo no mu.Under pastoral review
29Meyɛ awɔ akɛseɛ nua, ne mpatuo yɔnko.Under pastoral review
30Me wedeɛ ayɛ tuntum wɔ me so, na ahuhuro ahye me nnompe.Under pastoral review
31Me sanku nso adane awerɛhoɔ, na m'atɛntɛbɛn adane wɔn a wɔsu nne.Under pastoral review