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10 My life is consumed by sorrow,
    my years with groaning.
My strength has faltered because of my iniquity;[a]
    my bones have been consumed.

11 I have become an object of reproach to all my enemies,
    especially to my neighbors.
I have become an object of fear to my friends,
    and whoever sees me outside runs away from me.
12 Like a dead man, I am forgotten in their thoughts[b]
    like broken pottery.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:10 So MT DSS 5/6HevPs; LXX reads strength grew weak in poverty
  2. Psalm 31:12 Lit. hearts