11. What is my strength that I should hope? What is my end that I should prolong my life?
12. Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of steel?
13. Am I not doing all that I can, and even with all this I lack the power to do anything?
14. He that is afflicted deserves mercy from his friend; but he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.
15. My brethren have lied to me as a brook; they passed away as an impetuous stream,
16. which was hidden by ice and covered by snow.
17. Which in the time of heat, they vanish; when they are heated, they disappear out of their place;
18. they turn aside out of the paths of their way; they go to nothing and perish.
19. The travelers of Tema looked; the traveling companies of Sheba waited for them.
20. They were put to shame because of their hope; they came there and found them confused.
21. Now ye are certainly as they; ye have seen the torment and are afraid.
22. Did I say, Bring unto me and pay for me out of your substance
23. and deliver me from the enemy’s hand and ransom me from the hand of the mighty?
24. Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred.
25. How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove?