6"God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.


In Context

3 "Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?

4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.

5 If a man denounces his friends for reward, the eyes of his children will fail.

6 "God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

8 Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.

Job 17:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:6He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:6And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:6He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:6|But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:6He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.