# Will all these not take up ... saying, 'Woe ... taken?' "All of these nations and peoples will certainly take up ... saying,'Woe ... taken.'" # take up a proverb and mockery, riddles They will use the words later in the verse to mock him. # riddles This is a question to which the one who asks knows the answer but hides it with figures of speech so that the other person needs to work hard to think of it. # Woe to the one increasing what is not his "Woe to the one who claims for himself more and more things that do not belong to him" # For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken? "For how long will you make yourself rich by extorting others?"