You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. “He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
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