Job 19:7-20

7If I shout, “Help me, I am in trouble!” nobody answers me. I shout to get help, but nobody comes to give me justice.

8God has stopped me so that I cannot move forward. He has made my path dark so that I cannot see the way to go.

9He has taken away my honour so that nobody respects me.

10Everywhere that I go, God is there to attack me. He is ready to destroy me. He has taken away my hope, as if he has dug a tree out of the ground.

11He is very angry against me. He attacks me as if I am his enemy.

12His whole army is coming to attack me! They build a road so that they can reach me. They are all around me.

13God has caused my brothers to stay away from me. My friends do not want to meet me.

14My relatives have left me. My best friends have forgotten me.

15Visitors who stayed in my house now think that I am a stranger. Even my servants think that I am a foreigner.

16I tell my servant to come to me but he does not come. I ask him to help me, but he does nothing.

17My wife moves away from the smell of my breath. My brothers stay away from me.

18Even young children insult me. When I stand up, they laugh at me.

19My best friends hate me. People that I love have turned against me.

20My body is now only skin and bones. I still breathe but I am only just alive.