Job 17:6
World English Bible (WEB)
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
In context
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will 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 will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
Job 17:6 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
- KJV King James Version
- He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- 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.