For You have hidden their heart from (A)understanding;
Therefore You will not exalt them.
He who speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will (B)fail.

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

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3-4 Will no one anywhere confirm my innocence? But you, O God, have kept them back from understanding this. Oh, do not let them triumph. If they accept bribes to denounce their friends, their children shall go blind.

“He has made me a mockery among the people; they spit in my face.

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