Job’s Abandonment and Affliction

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 honor

and 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.

12  His troops advance together;

they throw up a siege ramp against me,

and they camp around my tent.