16 “And now my soul is zpoured out within me;
days of affliction have taken hold of me.
17 aThe night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
18 With great force my garment is disfigured;
it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
19 God1 has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry to you for help and you do not answer me;
I stand, and you only look at me.
21 You have turned cruel to me;
with the might of your hand you bpersecute me.
22 cYou lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it,
and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
23 For I know that you will bring me to death
and to the house appointed for all living.
24 “Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
and in his disaster cry for help?2
25 dDid not I weep for him whose day was hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
26 But ewhen I hoped for good, evil came,
and when I fwaited for light, darkness came.
27 My inward parts are in turmoil and never still;
days of affliction come to meet me.
28 I ggo about darkened, but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
29 I am a brother of hjackals
and a companion of ostriches.
30 iMy skin turns jblack and falls from me,
and my kbones burn with heat.
31 My lyre is turned lto mourning,
and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, zwho sinned, this man aor his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but bthat the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me cwhile it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, dI am the elight of the world.” 6 Having said these things, he fspit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he ganointed the man’s eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, h“Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, i“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “It is he.” jOthers said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14 kNow it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” 16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not lfrom God, mfor he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a ndivision among them. 17 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has oopened your eyes?” He said, p“He is a prophet.”
18 The Jews1 did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” 20 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” 22 (His parents said these things because they qfeared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus2 to be Christ, he was to be rput out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”)
