10. My heart races, my strength leaves me,and even the light of my eyes has faded.
11. My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,and my relatives stand at a distance.
12. Those who seek my life set traps,and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;they plot treachery all day long.
13. I am like a deaf person; I do not hear.I am like a speechless personwho does not open his mouth.
14. I am like a man who does not hearand has no arguments in his mouth.
15. I put my hope in You, Lord;You will answer, Lord my God.
16. For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me —those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”
17. For I am about to fall,and my pain is constantly with me.