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Job 17:6

World English Bible

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

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Job 17:6 in other translations

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

Job 17:6 · American Standard Version

Job 17:6 in context

  1. 4For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
    Therefore you will not exalt them.
  2. 5He who denounces his friends for plunder,
    Even the eyes of his children will fail.
  3. 6“But he has made me a byword of the people.
    They spit in my face.
  4. 7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
    All my members are as a shadow.
  5. 8Upright men will be astonished at this.
    The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.