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11 
My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my neighbors stand far away.(A)
12 
Those who seek my life lay snares for me,
And those who seek to injure me threaten mischievous things and destruction;
They devise treachery all the day long.

13 
But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

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11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;(A)
    my neighbors stay far away.
12 Those who want to kill me set their traps,(B)
    those who would harm me talk of my ruin;(C)
    all day long they scheme and lie.(D)

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

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