Psalms 31:11

I was a reproch among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and a feare to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the streete, 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 wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.

12I am forgotten, as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.

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Cross References

Job 19:13He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.

Psalms 38:11My louers and my friends stand aside from my plague, and my kinsmen stand a farre off.

Psalms 64:8They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.

Psalms 88:8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.

Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the rebuke of thy seruants, which I beare in my bosome of all the mightie people.

Isaiah 53:3He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: 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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