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.