2. I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3. Shall vain words have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4. I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake mine head at you.
5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your grief.
6. Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7. But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8. And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face.
9. He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; he hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: they gather themselves together against me.
11. God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
12. I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: he hath also set me up for his mark.
13. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a giant.
15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.