¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

⁹ I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.

¹ My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁰ And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto Jehovah, and wept sore.

¹⁵ What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

²⁵ And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

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.

⁴⁴ And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

³⁷ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.

³⁸ Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.

¹⁷ Behold, `it was' for `my' peace `that' I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

³ My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: `Then' spake I with my tongue:

³ Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.

⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

¹³ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.

²⁶ Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Jehovah hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

²⁸ Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

²¹ And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.