5. You boast of your goodness,claiming I am sufferingbecause I am guilty.
6. But God is the one at faultfor finding fault with me.
7. Though I pray to be rescuedfrom this torment,no whisper of justiceanswers me.
8. God has me trappedwith a wall of darkness
9. and stripped of respect.
10. God rips me apart,uproots my hopes,
11. and attacks with fierce anger,as though I were his enemy.
12. His entire army advances,then surrounds my tent.
13-14. God has turned relativesand friends against me,and I am forgotten.
15. My guests and my servantsconsider me a stranger,
16. and when I call my servants,they pay no attention.
17. My breath disgusts my wife;everyone in my familyturns away.
18. Young children can't stand me,and when I come near,they make fun.