Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him. There is not a person he can trust, not a one. Even his familiar friends, those he ate with, visited with, talked with, even they are whispering against him. There is terror on every side. There is no one he can trust.
Friends are highly suspect.
Even God has deceived him. That is vivid description of the way our fears can seize our mind and distort reality to such a degree that we believe God himself is faithless to us. That is an accurate description, if you like, of a satanic attack, for that is exactly what this is. When we begin to look at our circumstances, something within us seizes upon them and begins to make everything look utterly black and dark. If you have ever been in this predicament you know that it is nonsense to try to convince yourself intellectually that these things are not so.