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Indeed,[a] you have closed their mind from understanding;
therefore, you will not let them triumph.
He denounces friends for reward,
so[b] his children’s eyes will fail.
“And he has made me a proverb for[c] the peoples,
and I am one before whom people spit.[d]

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Footnotes

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

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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