6. If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I cease, how much will leave me?
7. “Surely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company.
8. Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
9. His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.
10. They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me.
11. God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12. “I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized me by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.
13. His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground.
14. He breached me breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior.
15. “I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted my pride in the dust.