3. These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange [harden yourselves against me and deal severely with me].
4. And if it were true that I have erred, my error would remain with me [I would be conscious of it].
5. If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach and humiliation,
6. Know that God has overthrown and put me in the wrong and has closed His net about me.
7. Behold, I cry out, Violence! but I am not heard; I cry aloud for help, but there is no justice.
8. He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness upon my paths.
9. He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.
10. He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has He pulled up like a tree.
11. He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His adversaries.
12. His troops come together and cast up their way and siege works against me and encamp round about my tent.
13. He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14. My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15. Those who live temporarily in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
16. I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer, though I beseech him with words.