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“But He has made me a (A)byword of the people,
And I am [a]one at whom men (B)spit.

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  1. Job 17:6 Lit a spitting to the faces

“God has made me a byword(A) to everyone,(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.(C)

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30 “But now those younger than I (A)laugh at me,
Whose fathers I rejected even to put with the dogs of my flock.

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30 “But now they mock me,(A)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.(B)

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“And now I have become their mocking (A)song;
I have even become a (B)taunting word to them.
10 They abhor me and keep a distance from me,
And they do not [a]hold back from (C)spitting at my face.

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  1. Job 30:10 Lit withhold spit from my face

“And now those young men mock me(A) in song;(B)
    I have become a byword(C) among them.
10 They detest me(D) and keep their distance;
    they do not hesitate to spit in my face.(E)

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What man is like Job,
Who (A)drinks up mocking like water,

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Is there anyone like Job,
    who drinks scorn like water?(A)

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