19. All my metei sod (confidants) detest me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20. My etzem cleaveth to my ohr (skin) and to my basar, and I am escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21. Chanuni, chanuni, O ye my friends; for the yad Eloah hath touched me.
22. Why do ye persecute me like El, not satisfied with my basar?
23. Oh that my words were but written! O that they were recorded in a sefer!
24. That they were engraved with a pen of barzel and with oferet (lead) in the tzur forever!