¹¹ in my alarm I said,
    “Everyone is a liar.”^(A)

²² In my alarm^(A) I said,
    “I am cut off^(B) from your sight!”
Yet you heard my cry^(C) for mercy
    when I called to you for help.

⁴ “Beware of your friends;^(A)
    do not trust anyone in your clan.^(B)
For every one of them is a deceiver,^[a](C)
    and every friend a slanderer.^(D)
5 Friend deceives friend,^(E)
    and no one speaks the truth.^(F)
They have taught their tongues to lie;^(G)
    they weary themselves with sinning.

“So that you may be proved right when you speak
    and prevail when you judge.”^[a](C)

⁹ Surely the lowborn^(A) are but a breath,^(B)
    the highborn are but a lie.
If weighed on a balance,^(C) they are nothing;
    together they are only a breath.