13. “He has put my brothers far from me.My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14. My relatives have gone away.My familiar friends have forgotten me.
15. Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.I am an alien in their sight.
16. I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.I beg him with my mouth.
17. My breath is offensive to my wife.I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18. Even young children despise me.If I arise, they speak against me.
19. All my familiar friends abhor me.They whom I loved have turned against me.
20. My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21. “Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends;for the hand of God has touched me.
22. Why do you persecute me as God,and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23. “Oh that my words were now written!Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24. That with an iron pen and leadthey were engraved in the rock forever!