Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionHe is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GDespised and shunned by men—a man of pains, well-acquainted with sickness—and like one from whom people hide their faces; He was despised, and we held Him of no account.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageHe was despised and avoided by men—a man of deep sorrows, intimately acquainted with grief—like one before whom people turn their faces away; He was despised, and we counted Him as nothing.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleHe was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Footnotes
*Chadal ishim* (חֲדַל אִישִׁים) is a rare and pointed expression—'the one abandoned by men,' 'the one from whom men withdraw'—not merely disliked but actively avoided, as one shuns a plague victim. The word *choli* (חֹלִי) carries the double freight of physical sickness and interior grief; Matthew 8:17 reads this verse as literal healing of disease, while the broader song points to spiritual suffering—the ambiguity is deliberate. *Mak'ovot* (מַכְאֹבוֹת) are sharp, piercing pains. FOG uses 'pains' and 'sickness' to preserve the embodied, physical register; FOG Message renders them 'sorrows' and 'grief' to draw out the emotional and empathic dimension.
