He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
(175) The Sept. , the Targ. , and the Arab. render this “my head;” but the Vulg. and the Syr. , “gall.” It occurs again in Lamentations 2:19, and is rendered “gall” by the Targ. and all the versions. He was “surrounded with gall,” with what was bitter to him, and “with faintness,” with what made him to faint. Hence, in the next verse, he represents himself as being like the dead. — Ed. 