But now He has wearied me. You have stunned all my company.
“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.
My friends are they that scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to Eloah.
He has removed my brothers far away from me, and my friends are completely estranged from me.
There the wrong cease raging, and there the weary are at rest,
Is my help not within me? And is ability driven from me?
I have wasted away, I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
so am I allotted months of futility. And nights of trouble have been appointed to me.
The Master יהוה has given Me the tongue of taught ones, that I should know to help the weary with a word. He wakes Me morning by morning, he wakes My ear to hear as taught ones.
“So I also, I shall smite you with a grievous wound, to lay you waste because of your sins: