31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.
31:9 Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.
31:11 More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.
31:12 I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
31:13 For I have heard the slander of many -- terror on every side -- when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.
31:14 But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.
31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.
31:19 [Oh] how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!
31:20 Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
31:22 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
