Job 17:6
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- 13 The verb is the third person, and so God is likely the subject. The has “you have made me.” So most commentators clarify the verb in some such way. However, without an expressed subject it can also be taken as a passive.
- 14 The word “byword” is related to the word translated “proverb” in the Bible (מָשָׁל, mashal). Job’s case is so well known that he is synonymous with afflictions and with abuse by people.
- 15 The word תֹפֶת (tofet) is a . The expression is “and a spitting in/to the face I have become,” i.e., “I have become one in whose face people spit.” Various suggestions have been made, including a link to Tophet, but they are weak. The verse as it exists in the is fine, and fits the context well.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
“He has made me a byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom men spit.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“God has made me a byword to everyone,
a man in whose face people spit.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.
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NLTNew Living Translation
“God has made a mockery of me among the people;
they spit in my face.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
“And he has made me a proverb for the peoples,
and I am one before whom people spit.
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KJV 1900King James Version
He hath made me also a byword of the people;
And aforetime I was as a tabret.
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