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

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Footnotes

  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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11 When I made (A)sackcloth my clothing,
I became (B)a proverb to them.

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11 when I put on sackcloth,(A)
    people make sport of me.

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14 I have become a (A)laughingstock to all my people,
Their (B)song of ridicule all the day.

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14 I became the laughingstock(A) of all my people;(B)
    they mock me in song(C) all day long.

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63 Look at their [a](A)sitting and their rising;
(B)I am their mocking song.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:63 I.e., daily activities

63 Look at them! Sitting or standing,
    they mock me in their songs.(A)

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