13. “He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14. My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.
15. My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.
16. I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.
17. My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
18. Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
19. All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
20. I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21. “Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22. Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23. “Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
24. that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
25. I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.