13. He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14. My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15. Those who live temporarily in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
16. I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer, though I beseech him with words.
17. I am repulsive to my wife and loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18. Even young children despise me; when I get up, they speak against me.
19. All the men of my council and my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I loved are turned against me.
20. My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin or gums of my teeth.
21. Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
22. Why do you, as if you were God, pursue and persecute me? [Acting like wild beasts] why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23. Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book [carved on a tablet of stone]!
24. That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!
25. For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth. [Isa. 44:6; 48:12.]