²⁷ It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

⁸ They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

⁵ The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.