6. “Yet, if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain, does it not go away from me?
7. Surely now He has exhausted me; You have devastated my entire household.
8. You have seized me— it has become a witness; my leanness rises against me and testifies to my face.
9. His anger has torn and tormented me; He gnashes at me with his teeth; my enemy looks at me with daggers in his eyes.
10. People open their mouths against me; they strike my cheek in contempt; they unite together against me.
11. God has handed me over to the ungodly, and tossed me into the hands of the wicked.
12. I was at ease, but He shattered me; He grabbed me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me His target;
13. His archers surround me. Without mercy He pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
14. He breaks through against me, breach after breach. He runs after me like a warrior.
15. “I have sewn sackcloth over my skin and sunk my horn in the dust;
16. my face is red from weeping, and on my eyelids are deep darkness;