the prisoners are at rest together; they hear not the voice of the slave driver.

[The] small and [the] great [are] there, and [the] slave [is] free from his masters.

Am I able to help my self? Is not my strength gone from me,

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

"Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's bitterness.

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

Will You ever look away from me,
or leave me alone long enough to swallow?

If I will justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me; if I will put forth my self for a perfect man, he shall prove me a wicked doer.

Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,

"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.

“He loosens the bond of kings
And binds their loins with a loincloth.

He feels only the pain of his own body, and his inner self mourns for him."

“The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And numbered are the years stored up for him, the ruthless one.

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him.

Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.

Yea, the Almighty his own self shall be thine harvest, and the heap of thy money.

"{As God lives}, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter.

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

That He may turn man aside from his conduct,
And keep him from pride;

{so that} his life loathes bread, and his inner self [loathes] {appetizing food}.

Then He declares to them [the true character of] their deeds
And their transgressions, that they have acted arrogantly [with presumption and notions of self-sufficiency].

Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."