2.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. Explain This Verse
3.
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? Explain This Verse
4.
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. Explain This Verse
5.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. Explain This Verse
6.
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? Explain This Verse
7.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. Explain This Verse
8.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. Explain This Verse
9.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. Explain This Verse
10.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. Explain This Verse
11.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. Explain This Verse
12.
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. Explain This Verse
13.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. Explain This Verse
14.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. Explain This Verse
15.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. Explain This Verse
16.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Explain This Verse
17.
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. Explain This Verse
18.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. Explain This Verse
19.
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. Explain This Verse
20.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. Explain This Verse
21.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! Explain This Verse
22.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Explain This Verse