When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

{There is} no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither {is there any} rest in my bones because of my sin. {rest: Heb. peace, or, health}

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, {having} sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I {am} weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. {out of...: or, sundered}

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. {troubled: Heb. wried}

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. {is gone...: Heb. is not with me}

From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate {and} faint all the day.