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Job 17:6

ShameLoneliness

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.

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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BSB
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
KJV
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
WEB
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
ASV
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
DARBY
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
BLB
And He has made me a byword among the peoples, and a spitting in the face I have become.
ÅB
Jeg er satt til et ordspråk for folk; jeg er en mann som blir spyttet i ansiktet.
OTB
Likevel har Han gjort meg til et ordspråk blant folket,
Og jeg er en som folk spytter på.
B1930
Jeg er satt til et ordsprog for folk; jeg er en mann som blir spyttet i ansiktet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Job 30:9

    And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

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  • Psalms 44:14

    You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

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  • 1 Kings 9:7

    then 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.

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  • Isaiah 5:12

    At 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.

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  • Genesis 31:27

    Why 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.

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