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(A)Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye [a]gazes on their provocation.

“Establish, now, a pledge (B)for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will clap my hand in pledge?
For You have (C)hidden their heart from insight,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
He who (D)informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The (E)eyes of his children also will come to an end.

“But He has made me a (F)byword of the people,
And I am [b]one at whom men (G)spit.
My eye has also grown (H)dim because of grief,
And all my (I)members are as a shadow.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:2 Lit lodges
  2. Job 17:6 Lit a spitting to the faces