5. You think you’re better than I am,using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
6. But it is God who has wronged me,capturing me in his net.
7. “I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.I protest, but there is no justice.
8. God has blocked my way so I cannot move.He has plunged my path into darkness.
9. He has stripped me of my honorand removed the crown from my head.
10. He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished.He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
11. His fury burns against me;he counts me as an enemy.
12. His troops advance.They build up roads to attack me.They camp all around my tent.
13. “My relatives stay far away,and my friends have turned against me.
14. My family is gone,and my close friends have forgotten me.
15. My servants and maids consider me a stranger.I am like a foreigner to them.
16. When I call my servant, he doesn’t come;I have to plead with him!
17. My breath is repulsive to my wife.I am rejected by my own family.
18. Even young children despise me.When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
19. My close friends detest me.Those I loved have turned against me.
20. I have been reduced to skin and bonesand have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.