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In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money,
    and his children suffer for it.[a]
And now people use this proverb against me;
    they come and spit in my face.
My grief has almost made me blind;
    my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.

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  1. Job 17:5 someone … suffer for it; or someone entertains his friends while his children go hungry.

If anyone denounces their friends for reward,(A)
    the eyes of their children will fail.(B)

“God has made me a byword(C) to everyone,(D)
    a man in whose face people spit.(E)
My eyes have grown dim with grief;(F)
    my whole frame is but a shadow.(G)

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