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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
He that denounceth his friends for a [a]prey,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

But he hath made me a byword of the people;
And they spit in my face.

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  1. Job 17:5 Hebrew portion.

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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