² If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

¹⁸ For I am full of words; The spirit within me constraineth me.

¹⁹ Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.

²⁰ I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.

²⁰ for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

¹¹ Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

⁹ And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot `contain'.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

⁵ But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.

⁶ Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was `inflicted' by the many;

⁸ For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret `it' (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

⁹ I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, `a repentance' which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.