⁵ abandoned^[a] among the dead.
I am like the slain lying in the grave,^(A)
whom you no longer remember,
and who are cut off from your care.^[b](B)

¹¹ I said: I will never see the Lord,
the Lord in the land of the living;^(A)
I will not look on humanity any longer
with the inhabitants of what is passing away.^[a]
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent.^(B)
I have rolled up my life like a weaver;^(C)
he cuts me off from the loom.^(D)
By nightfall^[b] you make an end of me.^(E)