19. All my close friends hate me. Even my loved ones have turned against me.
20. “I am so thin, my skin hangs loose on my bones. I have little life left in me.
21. “Pity me, my friends, pity me, because God is against me.
22. Why do you persecute me as God does? Don’t you get tired of hurting me?
23. “I wish someone would write down everything I say. I wish my words were written on a scroll.
24. I wish they were carved with an iron tool into lead or scratched on a rock so that they would last forever.