10 For my life is spent with grief,
And my years with sighing;
My strength fails because of my iniquity,
And my bones waste away.
11 (A)I am a [a]reproach among all my enemies,
But (B)especially among my neighbors,
And am repulsive to my acquaintances;
(C)Those who see me outside flee from me.
12 (D)I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a [b]broken vessel.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:11 despised thing
  2. Psalm 31:12 Lit. perishing

10 My life is consumed by anguish(A)
    and my years by groaning;(B)
my strength fails(C) because of my affliction,[a](D)
    and my bones grow weak.(E)
11 Because of all my enemies,(F)
    I am the utter contempt(G) of my neighbors(H)
and an object of dread to my closest friends—
    those who see me on the street flee from me.
12 I am forgotten as though I were dead;(I)
    I have become like broken pottery.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:10 Or guilt