10. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.
11. More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.
12. I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
13. For I have heard the slander of many--terror on every side--when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.
14. But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God