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

¹¹ Because of all my enemies,^(A)
    I am the utter contempt^(B) of my neighbors^(C)
and an object of dread to my closest friends—
    those who see me on the street flee from me.

¹³ “He has alienated my family^(A) from me;
    my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.^(B)
14 My relatives have gone away;
    my closest friends^(C) have forgotten me.
¹⁵ My guests^(D) and my female servants^(E) count me a foreigner;
    they look on me as on a stranger.
¹⁶ I summon my servant, but he does not answer,
    though I beg him with my own mouth.
¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife;
    I am loathsome^(F) to my own family.

⁸ By oppression^[a] and judgment^(A) he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;^(B)
    for the transgression^(C) of my people he was punished.^[b]