16I have heard words like that before;H347H6030H559

2the comfort you give is only torment.H8085H7227H5999H5162

3Are you going to keep on talking forever? Do you always have to have the last word?H7307H1697H7093H4834H6030

4If you were in my place and I in yours, I could say everything you are saying. I could shake my head wisely and drown you with a flood of words.H1696H3863H5315H3426H5315H2266H4405H5128H7218H1119

5I could strengthen you with advice and keep talking to comfort you.H553H1119H6310H5205H8193H2820

6But nothing I say helps, and being silent does not calm my pain.H1696H3511H2820H2308H1980

7You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.H3811H8074H5712

8You have seized me; you are my enemy. I am skin and bones, and people take that as proof of my guilt.H7059H5707H3585H6965H6030H6440

9In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.H2963H639H7852H2786H8127H6862H3913H5869

10People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.H6473H6310H5221H3895H2781H4390H3162

11God has handed me over to evil people.H410H5462H5760H3399H3027H7563

12I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practiceH7961H6565H270H6203H6327H6965H4307

13and shoots arrows at me from every side - arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.H7228H5437H6398H3629H6398H2550H8210H4845H776

14He wounds me again and again; he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.H6555H6556H6440H6556H7323H1368

15I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth, and I sit here in the dust defeated.H8609H8242H1539H5953H7161H6083

16I have cried until my face is red, and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,H6440H2560H1065H6079H6757

17but I am not guilty of any violence, and my prayer to God is sincere.H2555H3709H8605H2134

18O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!H776H3680H1818H2201H4725

19There is someone in heaven to stand up for me and take my side.H5707H8064H7717H4791

20My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.H7453H3887H5869H1811H433

21I want someone to plead with God for me, as one pleads for a friend.H3198H1397H433H120H1121H7453

22My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return.H4557H8141H857H1980H734H7725