If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.