8. He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9. He has stripped from me my gloryand taken the crown from my head.
10. He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
11. He has kindled his wrath against meand counts me as his adversary.
12. His troops come on together;they have cast up their siege ramp against meand encamp around my tent.
13. “He has put my brothers far from me,and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
14. My relatives have failed me,my close friends have forgotten me.
15. The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16. I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
17. My breath is strange to my wife,and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
18. Even young children despise me;when I rise they talk against me.
19. All my intimate friends abhor me,and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20. My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh,and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21. Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,for the hand of God has touched me!
22. Why do you, like God, pursue me?Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23. “Oh that my words were written!Oh that they were inscribed in a book!