Job 17:6

In 11 translations

BSB

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

KJV

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.aforetime: or, before them

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, || And I am a wonder before them.

YLT

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

DBY

And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.

DRC

He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.

GNV

Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.

JPS

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.

LXXE

But thou hast made me a byword among the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.

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WLC

וְֽ֭הִצִּגַנִי לִמְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְתֹ֖פֶת לְפָנִ֣ים אֶֽהְיֶֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ἔθου δέ με θρύλλημα ἐν ἔθνεσι, γέλως δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀπέβην.

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• Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
• Psalms 44:14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
• Genesis 31:27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
• 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
• Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

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