13. "They break up my path, They profit from my destruction; No one restrains them.
14. "As through a wide breach they come, Amid the tempest they roll on.
15. "Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my honor as 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 seized me.
17. "At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest.
18. "By a great force my garment is distorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
19. "He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.
20. "I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
21. "You have become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You persecute me.
22. "You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride; And You dissolve me in a storm.
23. "For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting for all living.
24. "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?