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


In Context

3 |Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

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

7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:6"God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

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 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.