Psalms 38:10-17

¹⁰(38-11) My heart fluttereth, my strength faileth me; as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

¹¹(38-12) My friends and my companions stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹²(38-13) They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak crafty devices, and utter deceits all the day.

¹³(38-14) But I am as a deaf man, I hear not; and I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

¹⁴(38-15) Yea, I am become as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no arguments.

¹⁵(38-16) For in Thee, O LORD, do I hope; Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶(38-17) For I said: 'Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.'

¹⁷(38-18) For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.