¹ tn Or “scoff at, deride, mock.”

³ tn Or “scoffs at”; “derides”; “mocks.”

² tn Grk “Mocking him, the chief priests…said among themselves.”

⁴ tn Grk “Mocking him, the chief priests…said.”

³ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

¹ tn Heb “the mocking songs of the drinkers of beer.”

² tn Heb “a proverb,” or “[the subject of] a mocking song.”

¹ tn Heb “and they were mocking them and ridiculing them.”

³ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

⁵ tn Grk “they mocked him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant and has not been translated.

² tn Heb “and a mocking song, riddles, against him? And one will say.”

¹ tn The verb מוּק (muq, “mock”) occurs only here in the OT.

² tn Or “scoff at”; or “deride”; or “mock” (see Ps 2:4).

² sn In Ps 2:4 it was God who mocked the wicked by judging them.

¹ tn Or “is not mocked,” “will not be ridiculed” (L&N 33.409). BDAG 660 s.v. μυκτηρίζω has “of God οὐ μ. he is not to be mocked, treated w. contempt, perh. outwitted Gal 6:7.”

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.

⁵ tn Or “mock,” “ridicule.” The person who did not plan ahead becomes an object of joking and ridicule.

⁴ tn The construction shows the participle to be in the circumstantial clause: “will you mock—and [with] no one rebuking.”

² sn This bold anthropomorphism means that by his treatment of the despair of the innocent, God is in essence mocking them.

² tn Heb “with those who mock he will mock.” The repetition of the root לִיץ (lits, “to scorn; to mock”) connotes poetic justice; the punishment fits the crime. Scoffers are characterized by arrogant pride (e.g., Prov 21:24), as the antithetical parallelism with “the humble” here emphasizes.