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Job 30:9

Tree of Life Version

“So now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword to them.

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“I have become a laughingstock to my friend, though I called on God and He answered— a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face people spit.

A senseless and nameless brood, they were cast out from the land.

You made us a taunt for our neighbors, a scorn and ridicule for those around us.

Adonai, You enticed me, so I was enticed. You overpowered me, and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long. Everyone mocks me.

I have become a laughing stock to all my people, their song all day long.

All our enemies opened their mouth wide against us.

Look at them, sitting or standing, they mock me in their song.