- 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 loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
- Those who seek my life lay snares for me; And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they devise treachery all day long.
- But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; And I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
- Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth are no arguments.
- For I hope in You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
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