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They cried aloud like animals among the bushes.
    They hid together under the thorn bushes.
They were foolish people that nobody respected.
    People chased them away from their land.

But now their sons sing songs that insult me.
    They tell jokes about me.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 30:9 A joke is something funny that people say. They used jokes to laugh at Job.

They brayed(A) among the bushes(B)
    and huddled in the undergrowth.
A base and nameless brood,(C)
    they were driven out of the land.(D)

“And now those young men mock me(E) in song;(F)
    I have become a byword(G) among them.

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