13. They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14. They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15. Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
16. “And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
17. Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
18. In his great power God becomes like clothing to me ; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19. He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
20. “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21. You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
22. You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.