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“Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals];
Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.

They are the sons of [worthless and nameless] fools,
They have been driven out of the land.


“And now I have become [the subject of] their taunting;
Yes, I am a [a]byword and a laughingstock to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:9 I.e. the object of cruel jokes.

They brayed(A) among the bushes(B)
    and huddled in the undergrowth.
A base and nameless brood,(C)
    they were driven out of the land.(D)

“And now those young men mock me(E) in song;(F)
    I have become a byword(G) among them.

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