3   Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
ruwach⁷³⁰⁷ dabar¹⁶⁹⁷ qets⁷⁰⁹³ marats⁴⁸³⁴ `anah⁶⁰³⁰

4   I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
dabar¹⁶⁹⁶ luw'³⁸⁶³ nephesh⁵³¹⁵ yesh³⁴²⁶ nephesh⁵³¹⁵ chabar²²⁶⁶ millah⁴⁴⁰⁵ nuwa`⁵¹²⁸ ro'sh⁷²¹⁸ bmow¹¹¹⁹

5   But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
'amats⁵⁵³ bmow¹¹¹⁹ peh⁶³¹⁰ niyd⁵²⁰⁵ saphah⁸¹⁹³ chasak²⁸²⁰

6   Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
dabar¹⁶⁹⁶ k'eb³⁵¹¹ chasak²⁸²⁰ chadal²³⁰⁸ halak¹⁹⁸⁰

7   But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
la'ah³⁸¹¹ shamem⁸⁰⁷⁴ `edah⁵⁷¹²

8   And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
qamat⁷⁰⁵⁹ `ed<sup>5707</sup> kachash<sup>3585</sup> quwm<sup>6965</sup> `anah⁶⁰³⁰ paniym⁶⁴⁴⁰

9   He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
taraph²⁹⁶³ 'aph⁶³⁹ satam⁷⁸⁵² charaq²⁷⁸⁶ shen⁸¹²⁷ tsar⁶⁸⁶² latash³⁹¹³ `ayin⁵⁸⁶⁹

10   They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
pa`ar⁶⁴⁷³ peh⁶³¹⁰ nakah⁵²²¹ lchiy³⁸⁹⁵ cherpah²⁷⁸¹ male'⁴³⁹⁰ yachad³¹⁶²

11   God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
'el⁴¹⁰ cagar⁵⁴⁶² `aviyl<sup>5760</sup> yarat<sup>3399</sup> yad<sup>3027</sup> rasha`⁷⁵⁶³