Job 30:1

Job’s Present Misery

30:1 “But now they mock me, those who are younger ¹  than I,

whose fathers I disdained too much ² 

to put with my sheep dogs. ³ 

Psalms 44:13-14

44:13 You made us ⁴  an object of disdain to our neighbors;

those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ⁵ 

44:14 You made us ⁶  an object of ridicule ⁷  among the nations;

foreigners treat us with contempt. ⁸ 

Psalms 79:4

79:4 We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors;

those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ⁹ 

Psalms 80:6

80:6 You have made our neighbors dislike us, ¹⁰ 

and our enemies insult us.

Jeremiah 20:8

20:8 For whenever I prophesy, ¹¹  I must cry out, ¹² 

“Violence and destruction are coming!” ¹³ 

This message from the Lord ¹⁴  has made me

an object of continual insults and derision.

Mark 5:40

5:40 And they began making fun of him. ¹⁵  But he put them all outside ¹⁶  and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions ¹⁷  and went into the room where the child was. ¹⁸ 

Hebrews 11:36

11:36 And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

¹ tn Heb “smaller than I for days.”

² tn Heb “who I disdained their fathers to set…,” meaning “whose fathers I disdained to set.” The relative clause modifies the young fellows who mock; it explains that Job did not think highly enough of them to put them with the dogs. The next verse will explain why.

³ sn Job is mocked by young fellows who come from low extraction. They mocked their elders and their betters. The scorn is strong here – dogs were despised as scavengers.

⁴ tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).

⁵ tn Heb “an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.”

⁶ tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).

⁷ tn Heb “a proverb,” or “[the subject of] a mocking song.”

⁸ tn Heb “a shaking of the head among the peoples.” Shaking the head was a derisive gesture (see Jer 18:16; Lam 2:15).

⁹ tn Heb “an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.” See Ps 44:13.

¹⁰ tn Heb “you have made us an object of contention to our neighbors.”

¹¹ tn Heb “speak,” but the speaking is in the context of speaking as a prophet.

¹² tn Heb “I cry out, I proclaim.”

¹³ tn Heb “Violence and destruction.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “the word of the Lord.” For the use of כִּי…כִּי (ki…ki) here in the sense of “for…and” see KBL 432 s.v. כּי 10.

¹⁵ tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.

¹⁶ tn Or “threw them all outside.” The verb used, ἐκβάλλω (ekballw), almost always has the connotation of force in Mark.

¹⁷ tn Grk “those with him.”

¹⁸ tn Grk “into where the child was.”