11. My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.
12. Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
13. But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear, and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth.
14. And so I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts.
15. Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh. You will answer, O Lord my God.
16. For I said, “Help, lest they rejoice over me, lest they boast against me when my foot slips.”
17. For I am ready to stumble, and my pain is before me continually.