He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.[a](A)

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  1. Job 17:6 Lit become a spitting to the faces

“God has made me a byword(A) to everyone,(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.(C)

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Now I am mocked by their songs;(A)
I have become an object of scorn to them.

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“And now those young men mock me(A) in song;(B)
    I have become a byword(C) among them.

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14 You make us a joke among the nations,
a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.(A)

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  1. Psalm 44:14 Lit shaking of the head

14 You have made us a byword(A) among the nations;
    the peoples shake their heads(B) at us.

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I will make them an object of horror(A) and disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace, an object of scorn, ridicule,(B) and cursing, wherever I have banished them.

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I will make them abhorrent(A) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,(B) a curse[a](C) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish(D) them.

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  1. Jeremiah 24:9 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed.