Psalms 31:11

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

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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, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

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Cross References

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

Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Psalms 64:8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Psalms 88:8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Psalms 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

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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