Job 19:7-12

Revised Standard Version

⁷ Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;
    I call aloud, but there is no justice.
⁸ He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
    and he has set darkness upon my paths.
⁹ He has stripped from me my glory,
    and taken the crown from my head.
¹⁰ He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,
    and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
¹¹ He has kindled his wrath against me,
    and counts me as his adversary.
¹² His troops come on together;
    they have cast up siegeworks^[a] against me,
    and encamp round about my tent.