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18 Even young children despise me;
    when I appear, they speak against me.

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18 Even the little boys(A) scorn me;
    when I appear, they ridicule me.(B)

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11 My life is worn out by sorrow,
    and my years by sighing.
My strength fails in my affliction;
    my bones are wearing down.(A)
12 To all my foes I am a thing of scorn,
    and especially to my neighbors
    a horror to my friends.
When they see me in public,
    they quickly shy away.(B)
13 I am forgotten, out of mind like the dead;
    I am like a worn-out tool.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 31:13 Like a worn-out tool: a common comparison for something ruined and useless, cf. Is 30:14; Jer 19:11; 22:28.

11 Because of all my enemies,(A)
    I am the utter contempt(B) of my neighbors(C)
and an object of dread to my closest friends—
    those who see me on the street flee from me.
12 I am forgotten as though I were dead;(D)
    I have become like broken pottery.
13 For I hear many whispering,(E)
    “Terror on every side!”(F)
They conspire against me(G)
    and plot to take my life.(H)

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11 (A)Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

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11 And they asked him, “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”

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