11 From the standpoint of all those showing hostility to me+ I have become a reproach,+

And to my neighbors very much so,+

And a dread to my acquaintances.+

When seeing me out of doors, they have fled from me.+

11 As for my lovers* and my companions, they keep standing away from my plague,+

And my close acquaintances themselves have stood off at a distance.+

 8 I have become one estranged to my brothers,+

And a foreigner to the sons of my mother.+