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Job 17:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

6 “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; And aforetime I was as a tabret.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

6 But He has made me a byword among the people, and they spit before my face.

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American Standard Version (1901)

6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

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Common English Bible

6 He makes me a popular proverb; I’m like spit in people’s faces.

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Catholic Public Domain Version

6 He has posted me like a proverb to the people, and I am an example in their presence.

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Job 17:6
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You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.


“And now they mock me in song; I am a byword to them.


whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord or see the work of his hands!


then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.


Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre.


But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp for seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”


I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.


Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.


They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.


When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.


All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face


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