4 I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you. Compare verse1 commentary
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Compare verse1 commentary
6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? Compare verse1 commentary
8 And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face. Compare verse2 commentaries
9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes on me. Compare verse2 commentaries
10 They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. Compare verse2 commentaries
11 God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. Compare verse2 commentaries
12 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. Compare verse1 commentary
13 His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. Compare verse1 commentary