5
I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6
"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
8
And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
9
He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.