Holman Christian Standard Bible

Psalms 38:11-18 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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.

18. So I confess my guilt;I am anxious because of my sin.