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)

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

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.

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

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)