Job 17:6
He has made me a proverb of ridicule among the people; they spit in my face.
Free Bible 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
5They betray friends to gain benefit for themselves and their children suffer for it.
7My eyes are worn out from crying and my body is a shadow of its former self.
Cross References
Genesis 31:27Why did you run away in secret, trying to trick me? Why didn't you come and tell me? I would have given you a good send-off, a celebration with singing and the music of tambourines and lyres.
Job 30:9Yet now they mock me in their songs; I have become a joke to them!
Psalms 44:15We are humiliated all day long; we hold our heads in shame,
Isaiah 5:12At their feasts you have lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine, but you don't ever consider what the Lord is doing, and you don't recognize his help.
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 →