36. LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.
37. MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
38. MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
39. MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
40. NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
41. NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
42. NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.
43. SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.
44. SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
45. SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.
46. PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.
47. PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.
48. PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.
49. AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest
50. AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.