5. Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
6. Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,and if I hold back, what have I lost?
7. Surely He has now exhausted me.You have devastated my entire family.
8. You have shriveled me up — it has become a witness;My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
9. His anger tears at me, and He harasses me.He gnashes His teeth at me.My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
10. They open their mouths against meand strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.
11. God hands me over to unjust men; He throws me into the hands of the wicked.
12. I was at ease, but He shattered me;He seized me by the scruff of the neckand smashed me to pieces.He set me up as His target;
13. His archers surround me.He pierces my kidneys without mercyand pours my bile on the ground.
14. He breaks through my defenses again and again; He charges at me like a warrior.
15. I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;I have buried my strength in the dust.
16. My face has grown red with weeping,and darkness covers my eyes,