8. A senseless, a nameless brood,they have been whipped out of the land.
9. “And now I have become their song;I am a byword to them.
10. They abhor me; they keep aloof from me;they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
11. Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me,they have cast off restraint in my presence.
12. On my right hand the rabble rise;they push away my feet;they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13. They break up my path;they promote my calamity;they need no one to help them.
14. As through a wide breach they come;amid the crash they roll on.
15. Terrors are turned upon me;my honor is pursued as by the wind,and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
16. “And now my soul is poured out within me;days of affliction have taken hold of me.
17. The night racks my bones,and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
18. With great force my garment is disfigured;it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
19. God has cast me into the mire,and I have become like dust and ashes.
20. I cry to you for help and you do not answer me;I stand, and you only look at me.
21. You have turned cruel to me;with the might of your hand you persecute me.
22. You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it,and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
23. For I know that you will bring me to deathand to the house appointed for all living.