Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear:

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

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

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

As for the eyes of the ungodly, they shall be consumed, and not escape: their hope shall be misery and sorrow of mind."

But I also have a mind;
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

that thy mind is so puffed up against God and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

“They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity,
And their mind prepares deception.”

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.

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly.

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversity.

My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.

Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

O earth! do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for mine outcry.

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.

Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

"How long will ye vex my mind, and trouble me with words?

And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

"For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there.

I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind, - With his dearest thing, shall he not get away:

Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering: -

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

He will certainly accomplish what He has decreed for me,
and He has many more things like these in mind.

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

"As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

He breaks open a mine shaft {away from where people dwell}; [those] who are forgotten {by travelers}, they dangle, they sway [far away] from human beings.

“[As for] the earth, out of it comes food,
But underneath [its surface, down deep] it is turned over as fire.

“Man dams up the streams from flowing [so that they do not trickle into the mine],
And what is hidden he brings out to the light.

Mine honour, shall be young again with me, and, my bow, in my hand, be renewed.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

Even the strength of their hands, wherefore was it mine? Upon them, vigour was lost;

Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

Therefore is my mind poured full of heaviness, and the days of trouble have taken hold upon me.

At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

Thou art become mine enemy, and with thy violent hand thou takest part against me.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

Hath my heart meddled privily with any deceit? Or, did I ever kiss mine own hand?

Have I ever rejoiced at the hurt of mine enemy? Or was I ever glad, that any harm happened to him? Oh no.

Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?'

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Every man, no doubt, hath a mind; but it is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth understanding.