15. Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
16. To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
17. My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.
18. Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
19. Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
20. To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
21. Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
22. Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
23. Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
24. With a pen of iron and lead--For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
25. That--I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
26. And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see God:
27. Whom I--I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
28. But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.