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

²² They draw near to the pit,^(A)
    and their life to the messengers of death.^[a](B)

²⁵ let their flesh be renewed^(A) like a child’s;
    let them be restored as in the days of their youth’^(B)—