# When we are slandered

This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "When people slander us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])

# We have become as the refuse of the world

"People began to consider us—and they still consider us—to be the garbage of the world"

# the refuse of the world

"the worst kind of garbage in the world"