³ For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

³ A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

² Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

¹⁹ Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

²⁰ How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

⁵ O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

⁴ You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

²⁸ Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.