3. Behold, you have instructed many,you have strengthened the weak hands.

4. Your words have supported him who was falling,You have made firm the feeble knees.

5. But now it has come to you, and you faint.It touches you, and you are troubled.

6. Isn't your piety your confidence?Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?

16. If I had called, and he had answered me,yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

17. For he breaks me with a storm,and multiplies my wounds without cause.

18. He will not allow me to catch my breath,but fills me with bitterness.

19. If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

20. Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me.Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

21. I am blameless.I don't respect myself.I despise my life.

22. "It is all the same.Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

23. If the scourge kills suddenly,he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

15. Therefore I am terrified at his presence.When I consider, I am afraid of him.

16. For God has made my heart faint.The Almighty has terrified me.

17. Because I was not cut off before the darkness,neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

20. I cry to you, and you do not answer me.I stand up, and you gaze at me.

21. You have turned to be cruel to me.With the might of your hand you persecute me.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer;in the night season, and am not silent.

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes."Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.