He went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!”
Job 30:1 - New Revised Standard Version “But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition BUT NOW they who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. American Standard Version (1901) But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. Common English Bible But now those younger than I mock me, whose fathers I refused to put beside my sheepdogs. Catholic Public Domain Version But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock. |
He went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!”
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.
What could I gain from the strength of their hands? All their vigor is gone.
The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.
I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and everyone by a neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the base to the honorable.
Some began to spit on him, to blindfold him, and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” The guards also took him over and beat him.
and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people; and here I have examined him in your presence and have not found this man guilty of any of your charges against him.
Then they all shouted out together, “Away with this fellow! Release Barabbas for us!”
And the people stood by, watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!”
One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
But the Jews became jealous, and with the help of some ruffians in the marketplaces they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. While they were searching for Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly, they attacked Jason's house.
It was one of them, their very own prophet, who said, “Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons.”