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He is despised and rejected of men; accounted as the scum of mankind, as one unworthy of the company and conversation of all men.
A man of sorrows; whose whole life was filled with, and in a manner made up of, an uninterrupted succession of sorrows and sufferings.
Acquainted with grief; who had constant experience of and familiar converse with grievous afflictions; for knowledge is oft taken practically, or for experience, as Gen_3:5 2Co_5:21, and elsewhere.
We hid as it were our faces from him; we scorned and loathed to look upon him. Or, as others,
he hid as it were his face from us, as one ashamed to show his face, or to be seen by any men, as persons conscious to themselves of any great deformity do commonly shun the sight of men, as lepers did, Lev_13:45.
He was despised, and we esteemed him not: here are divers words expressing the same thing, to signify both the utmost degree of contempt, and how strange and wonderful a thing it was, that so excellent a person should be so despised.