Job 17:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ He hath made me also a byword of the people; And I am become an open abhorring.

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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.

Job 17:6 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 31:27

Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;

1 Kings 9:7

then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples:

Job 12:4

I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, A man that called upon God, and he answered him: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

Job 17:2

Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye abideth in their provocation.

Job 30:10

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.

Job 30:9

And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

Psalm 44:14

Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalm 44:15

All the day long is my dishonour before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,

Psalm 69:11

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

Isaiah 5:12

And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Numbers 12:14

And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.