Job 16:6-17

6If I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?

7Surely he has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.

8You have shriveled me up  — it has become a witness; my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

9His anger tears at me, and he harasses me. He gnashes his teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with his eyes.

10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.

11God hands me over to the unjust; he throws me to the wicked.

12I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target;

13his archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.

14He breaks through my defenses again and again; he charges at me like a warrior.

15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength in the dust.

16My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness covers my eyes,

17although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.