10 Indeed, my life is consumed with grief
and my years with groaning;(A)
my strength has failed
because of my sinfulness,[a]
and my bones waste away.(B)
11 I am ridiculed by all my adversaries
and even by my neighbors.
I am dreaded by my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street run from me.(C)
12 I am forgotten: gone from memory
like a dead person—like broken pottery.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:10 LXX, Syr, Sym read affliction

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