² If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

¹⁸ For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

¹⁹ My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

²⁰ Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.

²⁰ For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

¹¹ For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.

⁹ And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

⁴ For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

⁵ But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

⁶ Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;

⁸ For though my letter gave you pain, I have no regret for it now, though I had before; for I see that the letter gave you pain, but only for a time.

⁹ Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

¹⁰ For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.