2 Certainly, mockers are around me.My eyes are focused on their opposition.
3 Please guarantee my bail yourself.Who else will guarantee it with a handshake?
4 You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand.That is why you will not honor them.
5 (Whoever turns in friends to get their propertyshould have his children’s eyesight fail.)
6 “Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people.Now they spit in my face.
7 Now my eyes are blurred from grief.Now all my limbs are like a shadow.
8 Decent people are shocked by this,and it stirs up the innocent against godless people.