Not having reacted well to what he saw, Asaph admitted: “For my heart was soured and in my kidneys I was sharply pained, and I was unreasoning and I could not know; I became as mere beasts from your standpoint.
בהגיבו שלא כראוי לאשר ראו עיניו, הודה אסף: ‏ ” כי יִתְחַמֵּץ לבבי, וכליותי אֶשְׁתּוֹנָן.