17. My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18. Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19. All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
20. My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21. “Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
22. Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?