Job 17:6

New King James Version

“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and not tell me; for I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with timbrel and harp?

1 Kings 9:7

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

Job 12:4

“I am one mocked by his friends, Who called on God, and He answered him, The just and blameless who is ridiculed.

Job 17:2

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

Job 30:10

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

Job 30:9

“And 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 dishonor is continually before me, And the shame of my face has covered me,

Psalm 69:11

I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them.

Isaiah 5:12

The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the Lord, Nor consider the operation of His hands.

Numbers 12:14

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