1-2. If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales,
3. they would weigh more than the sands of the sea,so my wild words should not surprise you.
4. Almighty God has pierced me with arrows,and their poison spreads through my body.God has lined up his terrors against me.
5. A donkey is content when eating grass,and a cow is quiet when eating hay.
6. But who can eat tasteless, unsalted food?What flavour is there in the white of an egg?
7. I have no appetite for food like that,and everything I eat makes me sick.
8. Why won't God give me what I ask?Why won't he answer my prayer?
9. If only he would go ahead and kill me!
10. If I knew he would, I would leap for joy,no matter how great my pain.I know that God is holy;I have never opposed what he commands.