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Job 17:6

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6He hath made me also fa byword of the people;

And ||aforetime I was as a tabret.

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Footnotes

  1. fPs. 44:14. & 69:11 (Heb.). See Deut. 28:37. So ch. 30:9. Comp. Joel 2:17 marg.
  2. ||Or, before them.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“He has made me a byword of the peoples,

and I am one before whom men spit.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“God has made me a byword to everyone,

a man in whose face people spit.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He has made me an object of scorn to the people;

I have become a man people spit at.

NLTNew Living Translation

“God has made a mockery of me among the people;

they spit in my face.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“And he has made me a proverb for the peoples,

and I am one before whom people spit.