Job 17:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ He hath made me as it were a byword of the people: and I am an example before them.

Job 17:6 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee secretly, and cheat me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

1 Kings 9:7

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

Job 12:4

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

Job 17:2

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

Job 30:10

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

Job 30:9

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

Psalm 44:14

Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Psalm 44:15

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

Psalm 69:11

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

Isaiah 5:12

They have lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.

Numbers 12:14

But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”