21 This is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion(A)
despises you and scorns you;
Daughter Jerusalem
shakes her head behind your back.(B)

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Job’s Three Friends

11 Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite,(A) Bildad the Shuhite,(B) and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort(C) him.

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If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

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11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances(A) came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver[a](B) and a gold earring.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 42:11 Lit a qesitah; the value of this currency is unknown

Everyone who sees me mocks me;
they sneer[a] and shake their heads:(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 22:7 Lit separate with the lip

They will be made to stumble;
their own tongues work against them.
All who see them will shake their heads.(A)

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20 Insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.(A)

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25 I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;[a]
when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 109:25 Lit to them

22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion(A)
despises you and scorns you;
Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head(B)
behind your back.

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19 These two things have happened to you:(A)
devastation and destruction,
famine and sword.
Who will grieve for you?
How can I[a] comfort you?

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Footnotes

  1. 51:19 DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg read you? Who can

Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?(A)
Who will show sympathy toward you?(B)
Who will turn aside
to ask about your well-being?

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16 They have made their land a horror,(A)
a perpetual object of scorn;[a](B)
all who pass by it will be appalled(C)
and shake their heads.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:16 Lit hissing

ס Samek

15 All who pass by
scornfully clap their hands(A) at you.
They hiss(B) and shake their heads(C)
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,(D)
the joy of the whole earth?(E)

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Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying,(A)
“Nineveh is devastated;
who will show sympathy to her?”
Where can I find anyone to comfort you?

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