17 Relieve the troubles(A) of my heart
    and free me from my anguish.(B)

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17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

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10 So then, banish anxiety(A) from your heart
    and cast off the troubles of your body,
    for youth and vigor are meaningless.(B)

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10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

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The waters of the river will dry up,(A)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.(B)

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And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

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56 The most gentle and sensitive(A) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter(B)

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56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

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The poor are shunned by all their relatives—
    how much more do their friends avoid them!(A)
Though the poor pursue them with pleading,
    they are nowhere to be found.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

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15 Truth(A) is nowhere to be found,
    and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.

The Lord looked and was displeased
    that there was no justice.(B)

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15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

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