15 My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;they look upon me as a stranger.
16 I summon my servant, but he does not answer,though I beg him with my own mouth.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife;I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Even the little boys scorn me;when I appear, they ridicule me.
19 All my intimate friends detest me;those I love have turned against me.
20 I am nothing but skin and bones;I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21 ‘Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,for the hand of God has struck me.