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

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

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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

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

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

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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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19 All my intimate friends(A) detest me;(B)
    those I love have turned against me.(C)

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19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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19 (A)All my close friends abhor me,
And those whom I love have turned against me.

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21 “Have pity on me, my friends,(A) have pity,
    for the hand of God has struck(B) me.

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21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

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21 “Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me!

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

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Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

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Bear with me that I may speak,
And after I have spoken, keep (A)mocking.

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

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30 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

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Job’s Wealth Now Poverty

30 “But now they mock at me, men [a]younger than I,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:1 Lit. of fewer days

10 They detest me(A) and keep their distance;
    they do not hesitate to spit in my face.(B)

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10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

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10 They abhor me, they keep far from me;
They do not hesitate (A)to spit in my face.

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11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;(A)
    my neighbors stay far away.

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11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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11 My loved ones and my friends (A)stand aloof from my plague,
And my relatives stand afar off.

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