Psalms 31:11

The scorn of all my foes, the butt of my neighbors am I, a terror to my acquaintance. At the sight of me in the street people turn quickly away.

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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 consumed with grief, and my years with sighing. My strength is broken with misery, my bones waste away.

12I am clean forgotten like the dead, am become like a ruined vessel.

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Cross References

Psalms 38:11My dear ones and friends keep aloof, and my neighbors stand afar off.

Psalms 64:8For their tongue he will bring them to ruin, all will shudder with horror at the sight of them.

Psalms 88:8You have put my friends far from me, you have made them shun me. I am shut in, and cannot escape,

Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, how I bear in my heart the scorn of all nations

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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