¹⁶ Suddenly one with human likeness^(A) touched my lips.^(B) I opened my mouth and said to the one standing in front of me, ‘My lord, because of the vision, anguish overwhelms me and I am powerless.^(C)

¹⁷ How can someone like me,^(A) your servant,^[a] speak with someone like you, my lord? Now I have no strength, and there is no breath in me.’