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OET (OET-LV) A_laughing-stock to_friends_him I_am [I_was]_calling on_god and_answered_him [is]_a_laughing-stock a_righteous_[person] a_blameless_[person].
OET (OET-RV) I’m laughed at by my friends.
⇔ I was calling on God and he answered,
⇔ but an innocent man becomes someone to laugh at.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
שְׂחֹ֤ק לְרֵעֵ֨הוּ ׀ אֶֽהְיֶ֗ה קֹרֵ֣א לֶ֭אֱלוֹהַּ וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֑הוּ
laughingstock to,friends,him am called on,God and,answered,him
Job is actually using the pronouns him and his to refer to himself. If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this using first-person pronouns. Alternate translation: “Even though God used to answer me when I called on him, now I have become laughter to my neighbor”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
שְׂחֹ֤ק
laughingstock
Job is using the term laughter by association to mean an object of laughter, that is, of derision. Your language may have an expression that you could use in your translation to convey this meaning. Alternate translation: “a laughingstock”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
שְׂ֝ח֗וֹק צַדִּ֥יק תָּמִֽים
laughingstock law-abiding/just entire/complete/moral
Job is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. It may be helpful to begin a new sentence here. Alternate translation: “I, a just and blameless man, have become a laughingstock!”
OET (OET-LV) A_laughing-stock to_friends_him I_am [I_was]_calling on_god and_answered_him [is]_a_laughing-stock a_righteous_[person] a_blameless_[person].
OET (OET-RV) I’m laughed at by my friends.
⇔ I was calling on God and he answered,
⇔ but an innocent man becomes someone to laugh at.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.