Job 17:6

Modern English Version

“And He has made me a byword of the people, someone in whose face they spit.

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee away secretly and sneak away from me and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and with songs, with the tambourine and harp.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel out of the land which I have given them, and I will cast this house, which I have consecrated for My name, out of My sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

Job 12:4

“I am a laughingstock to my neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him; the righteous, upright man is a laughingstock.

Job 17:2

Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

Job 30:10

They abhor me, they flee far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Job 30:9

“Now I am their taunting song; yes, I am their byword.

Psalm 44:14

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalm 44:15

My disgrace is continually before me, and shame has covered my face

Psalm 69:11

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

Isaiah 5:12

The lyre and the harp, the tambourine and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or consider the work of His hands.

Numbers 12:14

But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again.”