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Job 17:4-6
Good News Translation

4 You have closed their minds to reason;
    don't let them triumph over me now.
5 In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money,
    and his children suffer for it.[a]
6 And now people use this proverb against me;
    they come and spit in my face.

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  1. Job 17:5 someone … suffer for it; or someone entertains his friends while his children go hungry.
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Job 17:4-6
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4 You have closed their minds to understanding;(A)
    therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 If anyone denounces their friends for reward,(B)
    the eyes of their children will fail.(C)

6 “God has made me a byword(D) to everyone,(E)
    a man in whose face people spit.(F)

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