5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above meand plead my disgrace against me,
6 know then that God has wronged meand encircled me with his net.
7 “If I cry out, ‘Violence!’I receive no answer;I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass,and has set darkness over my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my honorand has taken the crown off my head.
10 He tears me down on every side until I perish;he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.
11 Thus his anger burns against me,and he considers me among his enemies.