I have sinned, What can I do for thee, thou watcher of men? Wherefore hast thou set me as thine object of attack, or have I become, unto thee, a burden?

As though I had not been, should I have become, - from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock - a righteous man without blame!

If its root, should become old in the earth, and, in the dust, its stock should die:

And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.

But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.

Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.

Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;

They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

So shall, the Almighty, become, thy precious ores, yea glittering silver unto thee!

They, have become rebels against the light, - they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.

But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;

He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Thou art turned to become a cruel one unto me, With the might of thy hand, thou assailest me;

Their young become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go out, and return not unto them.