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He denounces friends for reward,
so[a] his children’s eyes will fail.
“And he has made me a proverb for[b] the peoples,
and I am one before whom people spit.[c]
And my eye has grown dim from grief,
and the limbs of my body are all[d] like a shadow.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:5 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 17:6 Hebrew “of”
  3. Job 17:6 Literally “and spitting to the faces I am”
  4. Job 17:7 Hebrew “all of them”

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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