“How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?
“How long until you end these words? Consider, and then we will talk.
Job responded, saying:
Ten times now you have reproached me; you attack me shamelessly.
Look, you have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
“As God lives, who has deprived me of justice, Shaddai who has made my soul bitter,
“How long will you say these things? The words of your mouth are like a mighty wind.
For the music director, a psalm of David.
I will say to God my Rock: “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning, under the oppression of the enemy?”
My companion put forth his hands against those at peace with him, as he violates his covenant.
They return at evening, snarling like a dog, prowling about the city.
Hide me from the conspiracy of evildoers, from the tumult of workers of iniquity,
Reckless speech is like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Death and life are in the control of the tongue. Those who indulge in it will eat its fruit.
And they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “O Sovereign Master, holy and true, how long before You judge those who dwell on the earth and avenge our blood?”
Now it came about when she nagged him daily with her speeches and kept bothering him, his soul was annoyed to death.
