⁸ You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
    my gauntness^(A) rises up and testifies against me.^(B)

²⁰ I am nothing but skin and bones;^(A)
    I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.^[a]

²¹ Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,^(A) once hidden, now stick out.^(B)

⁵ In my distress I groan aloud^(A)
    and am reduced to skin and bones.

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.