“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
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