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Job Says to His Friends: I’m Still Wiser Than You

“Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people.
    Now they spit in my face.
Now my eyes are blurred from grief.
    Now all my limbs are like a shadow.
Decent people are shocked by this,
    and it stirs up the innocent against godless people.

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“God has made me a byword(A) to everyone,(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.(C)
My eyes have grown dim with grief;(D)
    my whole frame is but a shadow.(E)
The upright are appalled at this;
    the innocent are aroused(F) against the ungodly.

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He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

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“But He has made me (A)a byword of the people,
And I have become one in whose face men spit.
(B)My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,
And all my members are like shadows.
Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

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