- My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
- Those who seek my life set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception.
- I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear, like a mute, who cannot open his mouth;
- I have become like a man who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
- I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God.
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- My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
- They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
- But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
- Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
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