⁴ “I have become a laughingstock^(A) to my friends,^(B)
    though I called on God and he answered^(C)—
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!^(D)

⁶ “God has made me a byword^(A) to everyone,^(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.^(C)

30 “But now they mock me,^(A)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.^(B)

⁹ “And now those young men mock me^(A) in song;^(B)
    I have become a byword^(C) among them.

⁷ Is there anyone like Job,
    who drinks scorn like water?^(A)