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Job 17:6

American Standard Version

But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

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Job 17:6 in other translations

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

Job 17:6 · World English Bible

Job 17:6 in context

  1. 4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
  2. 5He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
  3. 6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
  4. 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
  5. 8Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.