21 This is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion(A)
despises you and scorns you;
Daughter Jerusalem
shakes her head behind your back.(B)

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21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken against(A) him:

“‘Virgin Daughter(B) Zion
    despises(C) you and mocks(D) you.
Daughter Jerusalem
    tosses her head(E) as you flee.

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Job’s Three Friends

11 Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite,(A) Bildad the Shuhite,(B) and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort(C) him.

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11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,(A) Bildad the Shuhite(B) and Zophar the Naamathite,(C) heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.(D)

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If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

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I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head(A) at you.

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11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances(A) came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver[a](B) and a gold earring.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 42:11 Lit a qesitah; the value of this currency is unknown

11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before(A) came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him,(B) and each one gave him a piece of silver[a] and a gold ring.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:11 Hebrew him a kesitah; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

Everyone who sees me mocks me;
they sneer[a] and shake their heads:(A)

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  1. 22:7 Lit separate with the lip

All who see me mock me;(A)
    they hurl insults,(B) shaking their heads.(C)

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They will be made to stumble;
their own tongues work against them.
All who see them will shake their heads.(A)

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He will turn their own tongues against them(A)
    and bring them to ruin;
    all who see them will shake their heads(B) in scorn.(C)

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20 Insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.(A)

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20 Scorn has broken my heart
    and has left me helpless;
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
    for comforters,(A) but I found none.(B)

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25 I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;[a]
when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.(A)

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  1. 109:25 Lit to them

25 I am an object of scorn(A) to my accusers;
    when they see me, they shake their heads.(B)

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22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion(A)
despises you and scorns you;
Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head(B)
behind your back.

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22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

“Virgin Daughter(A) Zion(B)
    despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
    tosses her head(C) as you flee.

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19 These two things have happened to you:(A)
devastation and destruction,
famine and sword.
Who will grieve for you?
How can I[a] comfort you?

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  1. 51:19 DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg read you? Who can

19 These double calamities(A) have come upon you—
    who can comfort you?(B)
ruin and destruction,(C) famine(D) and sword(E)
    who can[a] console you?

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  1. Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text / how can I

Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?(A)
Who will show sympathy toward you?(B)
Who will turn aside
to ask about your well-being?

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“Who will have pity(A) on you, Jerusalem?
    Who will mourn for you?
    Who will stop to ask how you are?

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16 They have made their land a horror,(A)
a perpetual object of scorn;[a](B)
all who pass by it will be appalled(C)
and shake their heads.(D)

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  1. 18:16 Lit hissing

16 Their land will be an object of horror(A)
    and of lasting scorn;(B)
all who pass by will be appalled(C)
    and will shake their heads.(D)

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ס Samek

15 All who pass by
scornfully clap their hands(A) at you.
They hiss(B) and shake their heads(C)
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,(D)
the joy of the whole earth?(E)

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15 All who pass your way
    clap their hands at you;(A)
they scoff(B) and shake their heads(C)
    at Daughter Jerusalem:(D)
“Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,(E)
    the joy of the whole earth?”(F)

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