Job 17:6

The Scriptures 1998

But He has made me a byword of the people, whereas in former times I was as a drum.

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

“Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and not inform me, and I would have sent you away with joy and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

1 Kings 9:7

then I shall cut off Yisra’ĕ

Job 12:4

I have become a laughing-stock to my friends – one who has called on Eloah and He answered him! A laughing-stock is the righteous, the perfect one!

Job 17:2

Truly, mockeries are with me, and my eye rests on their insults!

Job 30:10

They have loathed me, they have kept far from me, and did not refrain from spitting in my face.

Job 30:9

And now I have become their song, and I am a byword to them.

Psalm 44:14

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

Psalm 44:15

My reproach is always before me, And the shame of my face has covered me,

Psalm 69:11

And when I put on sackcloth, I became a proverb to them.

Isaiah 5:12

And the lyre and the harp, the tambourine and flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of יהוה, nor see the work of His hands.

Numbers 12:14

And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “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 after that let her be readmitted.”