I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

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“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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“I(A) am one mocked by his friends,
Who (B)called on God, and He answered him,
The just and blameless who is ridiculed.

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10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

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10 People open their mouths(A) to jeer at me;(B)
    they strike my cheek(C) in scorn
    and unite together against me.(D)

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10 They (A)gape at me with their mouth,
They (B)strike me reproachfully on the cheek,
They gather together against me.

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20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

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20 My intercessor(A) is my friend[a](B)
    as my eyes pour out(C) tears(D) to God;

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:20 Or My friends treat me with scorn

20 My friends scorn me;
My eyes pour out tears to God.

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Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

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Surely mockers(A) surround me;(B)
    my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

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Are not mockers with me?
And does not my eye [a]dwell on their (A)provocation?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:2 Lit. lodge

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

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“God has made me a byword(A) to everyone,(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.(C)

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“But He has made me (A)a byword of the people,
And I have become one in whose face men spit.

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22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

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22 Why do you pursue(A) me as God does?(B)
    Will you never get enough of my flesh?(C)

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22 Why do you (A)persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

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