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Job 30:9

New International Version

“And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

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“I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!

“God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.

You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me.

I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

“All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.

Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.