Even young children despise me. If I stand up, they make fun of me.
From there he went to Bethel. As he walked along the road, some boys came out of the city and mocked him. They said, “Go away, baldy! Go away!”
My breath offends my wife. I stink to my own children.
All my closest friends are disgusted with me. Those I love have turned against me.
“But now those who are younger than I am laugh at me. I didn’t think their fathers were fit to sit with the dogs of my flock.
They have attacked me on my right side like a mob. They trip my feet and then prepare ways to destroy me.
You sit and talk against your own brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
People will oppress each other, and everyone will oppress his neighbor. The young will make fun of the old, and common people will make fun of their superiors.
