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13 You sell your people for nothing;
    you make no profit from their sale.(A)
14 You make us the reproach of our neighbors,(B)
    the mockery and scorn of those around us.

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13 You have made us a reproach(A) to our neighbors,(B)
    the scorn(C) and derision(D) of those around us.
14 You have made us a byword(E) among the nations;
    the peoples shake their heads(F) at us.

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I have become the sport of my neighbors:[a]
    “The one whom God answers when he calls upon him,
    The just, the perfect man,” is a laughingstock;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:4–5 The Hebrew is somewhat obscure, but the general sense is that the wicked mock the pious when the latter appear to be abandoned by God; cf. Ps 22:7–9; Mt 27:39–43.

“I have become a laughingstock(A) to my friends,(B)
    though I called on God and he answered(C)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(D)

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