Job 17:6
But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
In Context
5He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Cross References
Genesis 31:27Why did thou flee secretly, and creep away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,
Job 30:9And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.
Psalms 44:15All the day long my dishonor is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
Isaiah 5:12And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.
Matthew Henry on Job 17:2-10
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me… Read the whole commentary →