Job 19:13-20

New International Reader's Version

¹³ “God has caused my family to desert me.
    The people I used to know are now strangers to me.
¹⁴ My relatives have gone away.
    My closest friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵ My guests and my female servants think of me as a stranger.
    They look at me as if I were an outsider.
¹⁶ I send for my servant, but he doesn’t answer.
    He doesn’t come, even though I beg him to.
¹⁷ My wife can’t stand the way my breath smells.
    My own family won’t have anything to do with me.
¹⁸ Even little children mock me.
    When I appear, they make fun of me.
¹⁹ All my close friends hate me.
    Those I love have turned against me.
²⁰ I’m nothing but skin and bones.
    I’ve barely escaped death.