If a man denounces his friends for a price,
the eyes of his children will fail.

He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.[a](A)
My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

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Footnotes

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

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