Job 19:13-20

The Voice

¹³     He has driven my relatives far from me;
        I am cut off from my friends.
¹⁴     My entire family has failed me;
        my best friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵     Everyone in my house, including my maidservants,
        treats me like an outsider;
        I am a stranger to them now.
¹⁶     When I send for my servant, he does not come.
        I even plead with him with my own voice.
¹⁷     My breath is strange; even my wife avoids me;
        I’m loathsome to my relatives; they can’t stand to be around me.
¹⁸     Even young children taunt me,
        and when I seek to rise, they mock me.
¹⁹     My closest friends can no longer bear me,
        and anyone I have ever loved has turned against me.
²⁰     I am reduced to skin and bones;
        I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth.