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You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand.[a]
    That is why you will not honor them.
        (Whoever turns in friends to get their property
            should have his children’s eyesight fail.)

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.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:4 English equivalent difficult.

You have closed their minds to understanding;(A)
    therefore you will not let them triumph.
If anyone denounces their friends for reward,(B)
    the eyes of their children will fail.(C)

“God has made me a byword(D) to everyone,(E)
    a man in whose face people spit.(F)

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