5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your grief.
6. Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7. But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8. And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face.
9. He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; he hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: they gather themselves together against me.