⁴ I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

²⁵ I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

⁷ All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

¹⁵ All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁶ to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

²¹ This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

²⁶ When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

³⁹ Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

⁴⁰ and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

¹² Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

¹⁵ This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

¹⁴ A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

¹⁹ In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, But he who restrains his lips does wisely.

¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁶ Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge."

² "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

¹⁴ "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; Even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

² "Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

⁵ Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?