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

"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.

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

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

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}.

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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].

Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness: