11. For God has cut my bowstring.He has humbled me,so they have thrown off all restraint.
12. These outcasts oppose me to my face.They send me sprawlingand lay traps in my path.
13. They block my roadand do everything they can to destroy me.They know I have no one to help me.
14. They come at me from all directions.They jump on me when I am down.
15. I live in terror now.My honor has blown away in the wind,and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.
16. “And now my life seeps away.Depression haunts my days.
17. At night my bones are filled with pain,which gnaws at me relentlessly.
18. With a strong hand, God grabs my shirt.He grips me by the collar of my coat.
19. He has thrown me into the mud.I’m nothing more than dust and ashes.
20. “I cry to you, O God, but you don’t answer.I stand before you, but you don’t even look.