4. I also could speak as you do,if you were in my place;I could join words together against youand shake my head at you.
5. I could strengthen you with my mouth,and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6. “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7. Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
8. And he has shriveled me up,which is a witness against me,and my leanness has risen up against me;it testifies to my face.
9. He has torn me in his wrath and hated me;he has gnashed his teeth at me;my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10. Men have gaped at me with their mouth;they have struck me insolently on the cheek;they mass themselves together against me.
11. God gives me up to the ungodlyand casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12. I was at ease, and he broke me apart;he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;he set me up as his target;
13. his archers surround me.He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;he pours out my gall on the ground.
14. He breaks me with breach upon breach;he runs upon me like a warrior.
15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skinand have laid my strength in the dust.