¹⁴ if I say to corruption,^(A) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,^(B) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

⁸ But now they are blacker^(A) than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;^(B)
    it has become as dry as a stick.