11. Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me,people throw off all restraint in my presence.
12. On my right the young rabble rise up;they drive me from place to place,and build up siege ramps against me.
13. They destroy my path;they succeed in destroying mewithout anyone assisting them.
14. They come in as through a wide breach;amid the crash they come rolling in.
15. Terrors are turned loose on me;they drive away my honor like the wind,and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.
16. “And now my soul pours itself out within me;days of suffering take hold of me.
17. Night pierces my bones;my gnawing pains never cease.
18. With great power God grasps my clothing;he binds me like the collar of my tunic.
19. He has flung me into the mud,and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
20. I cry out to you, but you do not answer me;I stand up, and you only look at me.
21. You have become cruel to me;with the strength of your hand you attack me.
22. You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it;you toss me about in the storm.
23. I know that you are bringing me to death,to the meeting place for all the living.
24. “Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken manwhen he cries for help in his distress.
25. Have I not wept for the unfortunate?Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26. But when I hoped for good, trouble came;when I expected light, then darkness came.
27. My heart is in turmoil unceasingly;the days of my affliction confront me.
28. I go about blackened, but not by the sun;in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.