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Job 30:9

Conservative English Version

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

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

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

And like senseless donkeys they are chased away.

Foreigners joke about us and shake their heads.

You tricked me, LORD, and I was really fooled. You are stronger than I am, and you have defeated me. People never stop sneering and insulting me.

I am a joke to everyone-- no one ever stops making fun of me.

our enemies curse us.

No matter what they are doing, they keep on mocking me.