11. and he has kindled his wrath against me, and he has counted me as one of his foes.
12. His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent.
13. “He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.
14. My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
15. The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16. I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must personally plead with him.
17. My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18. Little boys also despise me; when I rise, then they talk against me.
19. All my intimate friends abhor me, and these whom I have loved have turned against me.
20. My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21. “Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God’s hand has touched me.
22. Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
23. “O that my words could be written down! O that they could be inscribed in a scroll!
24. That with a pen of iron and with lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!