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Job 17:6

Conservative English Version

You, God, are the reason I am insulted and spit on.

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Why did you sneak away without telling me? I would have given you a going-away party with singing and with music on tambourines and harps.

I will no longer let my people Israel live in this land I gave them. I will desert this temple where I said I would be worshiped. Then people everywhere will think this nation is only a joke and will make fun of it.

I have always lived right, and God answered my prayers; now friends make fun of me.

All I can see are angry crowds, making fun of me.

They are hateful and keep their distance, even while spitting in my direction.

Those worthless nobodies make up jokes and songs to disgrace me.

Foreigners joke about us and shake their heads.

I am embarrassed every day, and I blush with shame.

They sneered at me for wearing sackcloth to show my sorrow.

At your drinking parties you have the music of stringed instruments, tambourines, and flutes. But you never even think about all the LORD has done,

But the LORD replied, "Miriam would be disgraced for seven days if her father had punished her by spitting in her face. So make her stay outside the camp for seven days, before coming back."




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