But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

All day long he craves greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking – how much of it goes away?