10. My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
11. My friends and my companions stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12. Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.
13. But I, as a deaf man, that heard not, and as a dumb man that did not open his mouth.
14. Thus I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15. For thee, O Lord, do I wait; thou wilt respond, O Lord my God.
16. For I said, Let them not rejoice over me; let them not magnify themselves against me when my foot slips.
17. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18. Therefore I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19. For my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied;
20. rendering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good.