19. All my closest friends are disgusted with me.Those I love have turned against me.
20. I am skin and bones,and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21. “Have pity on me, my friends!Have pity on me because God’s hand has struck me down.
22. Why do you pursue me as God does?Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?
23. “I wish now my words were written.I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.
24. I wish they were forever engraved on a rockwith an iron stylus and lead.