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Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation,[a]
    they have been driven from the land by scourging.”

Job Presents the Actions of the Mockers

“Now, I’ve become the object of their mocking melodies;[b]
    I’m nothing but a fool’s proverb to them!
10 They abhor me—they keep their distance from me;
    but they don’t refrain from spitting at the sight of me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:8 Or and without a name
  2. Job 30:9 Lit. their neginnoth; i.e. derogatory songs composed to mock Job