He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,(A) and familiar with pain.(B)
Like one from whom people hide(C) their faces
    he was despised,(D) and we held him in low esteem.

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He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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17 But the Lord inflicted(A) serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household(B) because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

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17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

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21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty.(A) Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted[a] me;(B) the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:21 Or has testified against

21 I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

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