7. The things that my nefesh refused to touch are like my loathsome lechem.
8. Who will grant that I might have my she'elah (request); oh that Eloah would grant me my tikveh!
9. Even that it would please Eloah to crush me; that He would let loose His yad, and cut me off!
10. Then should I yet have nechamah (consolation); yea, I would exult in chilah (pain); let him not spare; for I have not concealed the imrei Kadosh (words of the Holy One).
11. What is my koach, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should make patient my nefesh?
12. Is my koach the koach of avanim? Or is my basar bronze?
13. Is it that my help is not within me? And is tushiyyah (success) driven from me?
14. To him that is afflicted, chesed should be shown from his friend; otherwise, he forsaketh the fear of Shaddai.
15. Achai (my brethren) have dealt deceitfully as a wadi, and as the torrents of wadis they vanish away;
16. Which are blackish muddy by reason of the kerakh (ice), and wherein the sheleg (snow) is melted.
17. What season they become warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they disappear from their makom.
18. The paths of their derech wind about; they go up to tohu [Gn 1:2], and perish.
19. The caravans of Tema looked for them; the halichot (traveling companies) of Sheva hoped for them.
20. They were disappointed because of their bitachon; they come there and are confounded.
21. For now ye are become such; ye see my chatat (casting down), and are afraid.
22. Did I say, Bring unto me? Or, Give a present for me of your ko'ach (power, wealth)?
23. Or, Deliver me from the yad tzar (hand of the enemy, oppressor)? Or, Redeem me with a ransom from the yad of the tyrants?