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I have become a byword in every land,
    someone people spit upon.
My eyes have become increasingly blinded with grief,
    and all my members have been reduced to a shadow.
[a]The righteous are appalled at this,
    and the innocent are indignant at the wicked.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:8 These verses are directed at Job’s three friends, false upright men who are indignant at Job’s impiety and profit from his misery to bestow upon themselves a certificate of sainthood.