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Job 17:6
Job 17:6 is verse 6 of Job chapter 17, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
King James Version
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
World English Bible
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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Job 17:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
Psalms 44:14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Genesis 31:27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.