¹² I am forgotten as though I were dead;^(A)
    I have become like broken pottery.

¹² Those who want to kill me set their traps,^(A)
    those who would harm me talk of my ruin;^(B)
    all day long they scheme and lie.^(C)

¹³ I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,^(D)
    like the mute, who cannot speak;

⁸ You have taken from me my closest friends^(A)
    and have made me repulsive to them.
I am confined^(B) and cannot escape;^(C)

¹³ “He has alienated my family^(A) from me;
    my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.^(B)
14 My relatives have gone away;
    my closest friends^(C) have forgotten me.
¹⁵ My guests^(D) and my female servants^(E) count me a foreigner;
    they look on me as on a stranger.
¹⁶ I summon my servant, but he does not answer,
    though I beg him with my own mouth.
¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife;
    I am loathsome^(F) to my own family.
¹⁸ Even the little boys^(G) scorn me;
    when I appear, they ridicule me.^(H)
19 All my intimate friends^(I) detest me;^(J)
    those I love have turned against me.^(K)