Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 88:8

"Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth." — Psalms 88:8 (ASV)

I am shut up. —Not necessarily an actual imprisonment or incarceration on account of leprosy, but another figurative way of describing great trouble. The poet seems to have had Job 19:8 in mind.