Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
7Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
Cross References
Genesis 31:27Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;
Job 30:9And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.
Psalms 44:15(44-16) All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Isaiah 5:12And the harp and the psaltery, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither 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 →