1. My spirit is broken; I am ready to give up. My life is almost gone; the grave is waiting for me.
2. People stand around me and laugh at me. I watch them as they tease and insult me.
3. “God, give me some support. No one else will!
4. You have closed my friends’ minds, and they don’t understand. Please don’t let them win.
5. You know what people say: ‘A man neglects his own children to help his friends.’ But my friends have turned against me.
6. God has made my name a bad word to everyone. People spit in my face.
7. My eyes are almost blind from my grief. My whole body is as thin as a shadow.
8. Good people wonder how this could happen. The innocent are upset with anyone who is against God.