¹⁸ He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

¹⁹ How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

¹⁵ He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

¹⁹ Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

³ Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

¹⁵ I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

¹⁶ The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

¹⁷ They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

¹⁸ You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

⁷ The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

¹³ Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

² By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

²⁰ Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;