12 His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent.
13 “He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.
14 My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16 I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must personally plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Little boys also despise me; when I rise, then they talk against me.