Psalms 38:11-14

¹¹My friends and neighbors stay away from me because of my sores; even my own family stays away from me.

¹²And those who want to kill me set traps to catch me; those who want to harm me discuss ways to get rid of me; they plot against me all day.

¹³Now I act like I'm deaf, and do not listen to what they say. I act like I cannot talk, so I say nothing to reply to them.

¹⁴I act like a man who does not answer when people talk to him, because he cannot hear anything.