Psalms 31:11

I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

In Context

10For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.

12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

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Cross References

Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Psalms 38:11Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalms 64:8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them shall wag the head.

Psalms 88:8Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Psalms 89:50Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants, how I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples,

Isaiah 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:10-19

Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord , for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken… Read the whole commentary →

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