Job 19:7-20

7Indeed, I cry, ‘Help! I’m being attacked!’ but I get no response. I call for help, but there is no justice.

8“God has blocked my path so that I can’t go on. He has made my paths dark.

9He has stripped me of my honor. He has taken the crown off my head.

10He beats me down on every side until I’m gone. He uproots my hope like a tree.

11He is very angry at me. He considers me to be his enemy.

12His troops assemble against me. They build a ramp to attack me and camp around my tent.

13“My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me.

14My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My house guests have forgotten me.

15My female slaves consider me to be a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.

16I call my slave, but he doesn’t answer, though I beg him.

17My breath offends my wife. I stink to my own children.

18Even young children despise me. If I stand up, they make fun of me.

19All my closest friends are disgusted with me. Those I love have turned against me.

20I am skin and bones, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.