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Job 17:6

ShameLoneliness

4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

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

7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

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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.

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Cross references

  • Job 30:9

    And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

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  • Psalms 44:14

    Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

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  • 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 people:

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  • 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, neither consider the operation of his hands.

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  • Genesis 31:27

    Wherefore didst thou flee away 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?

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