38:2 Adonai, don’t rebuke me when you are angry or discipline me when you are enraged,
38:3 for your arrows penetrate me deeply, and your hand is pressing me down.
38:4 Your indignation left no part of me intact; my sin made my whole body sick;
38:5 for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.
38:6 I have stinking, festering wounds because of my foolishness.
38:7 I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long.
38:8 For my insides burn with fever, and my whole body is sick.
38:9 I am numb, completely crushed; my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.
38:10 Adonai, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
38:11 My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone, and the light in my eyes has left me.
38:12 My friends and companions shun my disease; even the closest keep their distance.
38:13 Those seeking my life lay snares for me, those seeking to harm me speak of disaster and think up deceptions all day long.
38:14 But I’m like a deaf man — I don’t hear it; and, like a mute, I don’t say a word.
38:15 Yes, I’ve become like a man who doesn’t hear and in whose mouth are no defenses.
38:16 For it is in you, Adonai, that I hope. You will answer, Adonai my God.
38:17 I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me or boast against me when my foot slips.”
38:18 For I am about to fall, and my pain is always with me.
38:19 I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin.
38:20 But my enemies are alive and well, those who wrongfully hate me increase their numbers;
38:21 and, since they repay good with evil, they oppose me because I pursue good.
38:22 Don’t abandon me, Adonai! My God, don’t be far from me!
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