“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

Job’s Present State Is Humiliating

30 “But now those who are younger than I (A)mock me,
Whose fathers I refused to put with the dogs of my flock.

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“And now I have become their [a](A)taunt,
And I have become a [b](B)byword to them.
10 They loathe me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not [c]refrain from (C)spitting in my face.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:9 Lit song
  2. Job 30:9 I.e., prob. a word of insult
  3. Job 30:10 Lit withhold spit from my face

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

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