Job 19:13-20

International Standard Version

¹⁶ “I call to my servant,
    but he doesn’t respond,
        even though I beg to him earnestly.^[b]
17 My wife says my breath stinks;
    even my children say I smell bad!
¹⁸ Even little children hate me;
    when I get up, they mock me.
¹⁹ My closest friends^[c] detest me;
    even the ones I love have turned against me.
²⁰ I’m a pile of skin and bones;
    I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth.”