¹⁹ All my intimate friends^(A) detest me;^(B)
    those I love have turned against me.^(C)

⁹ Even my close friend,^(A)
    someone I trusted,
one who shared my bread,
    has turned^[a] against me.^(B)

¹² If an enemy were insulting me,
    I could endure it;
if a foe were rising against me,
    I could hide.
¹³ But it is you, a man like myself,
    my companion, my close friend,^(A)
14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship^(B)
    at the house of God,^(C)
as we walked about
    among the worshipers.

²⁰ My companion attacks his friends;^(A)
    he violates his covenant.^(B)

¹¹ My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;^(A)
    my neighbors stay far away.

¹⁴ “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend^(A)
    forsakes the fear of the Almighty.^(B)
15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,^(C)
    as the streams that overflow