Job 17:6
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New International Version (© 2011)
"God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

King James Bible
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

Job 17:6 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

He hath made me also a by-word - My afflictions and calamities have become a subject of general conversation, so that my poverty and affliction are proverbial. As poor as Job, As afflicted as Job, are proverbs that have even reached our times and are still in use.

Aforetime I was as a tabret - This is not the translation of the Hebrew ותפת לפנים אהיה vethopheth lephanim eheyeh. Instead of לפנים lephanim, I would read לפניהם liphneghem, and then the clause might be translated thus: I shall be as a furnace, or consuming fire (Topheth) before them. They shall have little reason to mock when they see the end of the Lord's dealings with me; my example will be a consuming fire to them, and my false friends will be confounded. Coverdale translates thus: He hath made me as it were a byworde of the comon people. I am his gestinge stocke amonge them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

a by-word

Job 30:9 And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.

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...

Psalm 44:14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

aforetime. or, before them. as a tabret

Genesis 31:27 Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth, and with songs...

Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD...

Job 17:6 Parallel Commentaries
Aforetime Byword By-Word Face Former Mark Peoples Proverb Shame Spit Sport Tabret Time Wonder Word
Aforetime Byword By-Word Face Former Mark Peoples Proverb Shame Spit Sport Tabret Time Wonder Word
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Numbers 12:14 The LORD replied to Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back."
Job 12:4 "I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered-- a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
Job 17:2 Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
Job 30:9 "And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Job 30:10 They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
Psalm 44:14 You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
Psalm 69:11 when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.