8 I am numb with pain and severely battered;I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
9 O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire;my groaning is not hidden from you.
10 My heart beats quickly;my strength leaves me;I can hardly see.
11 Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance;my neighbors stand far away.
12 Those who seek my life try to entrap me;those who want to harm me speak destructive words;all day long they say deceitful things.
13 But I am like a deaf man – I hear nothing;I am like a mute who cannot speak.
14 I am like a man who cannot hearand is incapable of arguing his defense.