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# Connecting Statement:
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Job speaks again about the people who were mocking him.
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# But now I have become the subject of their taunting song
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The abstract noun "song" can be expressed with the verb "sing." AT: "But now they sing songs about me to taunt me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# I have become a byword for them
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Here "byword" is a metonym for the person about whom people make cruel jokes. AT: "I am now one whom they make cruel jokes about" or "They joke and say cruel things about me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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