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9-10 Because you are so angry with me,
    I eat ashes as my food.
My tears drop
    into the water that I drink.
It seems that you have picked me up,
    and then you have thrown me away.
11 My days are disappearing,
    like a shadow in the evening.
Like dry grass,
    I will soon die.

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For I eat ashes(A) as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears(B)
10 because of your great wrath,(C)
    for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
11 My days are like the evening shadow;(D)
    I wither(E) away like grass.

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