He will not permit me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
For you write bitter things against me, and make me possess the iniquities of my youth.
As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul;
Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
How long will you not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.
Your anger lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
Surely against me has he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.