²⁸ “So man wastes away like something rotten,
    like a garment^(A) eaten by moths.^(B)

²⁸ I go about blackened,^(A) but not by the sun;
    I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.^(B)

³⁰ My skin grows black^(A) and peels;^(B)
    my body burns with fever.^(C)

¹⁰ because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,^(A)
    nor will you let your faithful^[a] one^(B) see decay.^(C)

⁹ so that they should live on^(A) forever
    and not see decay.^(B)