Devine Scripture

Job 17:6

Job chapter 17 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.5He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

v.6This passage

v.7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 30:9

    And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

  • Psalms 44:14

    Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

  • Genesis 31:27

    Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;

  • 1 Kings 9:7

    then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  • Isaiah 5:12

    And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.