¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting, and I prayed with head bowed on my breast.

¹⁴ I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother; I bowed down in sorrow, as one who bewails his mother.

¹⁵ But in my stumbling and limping they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; the smiters (slanderers and revilers) gathered against me, and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander and revile me.