Job 17:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
In context
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.
Job 17:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- KJV King James Version
- He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
- WEB World English Bible
- “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
- WBS Webster Bible
- He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.