⁴ “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)

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble,
    I will deliver him and honor him.^(A)

30 “But now they mock me,^(A)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.^(B)

³ Bear with me while I speak,
    and after I have spoken, mock on.^(A)

⁶ “God has made me a byword^(A) to everyone,^(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.^(C)

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