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

"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.

"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}.

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

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

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

"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.