For then shall you lift up your face without spot; yea, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

He has made me also a byword of the people; and I was as one before whom men spit.

Who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was swept away with a flood:

Even today is my complaint bitter: my hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and hesitate not to spit in my face.

If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;