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11 Even to this day we both hunger and thirst, and are clothed in rags, and are buffeted with fists, and have no certain dwelling place, 12 and labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled, and yet we bless. We are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are ill spoken of, and we pray. We are made as if the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things, even to this time.

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11 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.(A) 12 We work hard with our own hands.(B) When we are cursed, we bless;(C) when we are persecuted,(D) we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage(E) of the world—right up to this moment.

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