All the day mine enemies reproached me, Those mad at me have sworn against me.

Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.

And I -- I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.

'For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;