Job 17:6
And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, || And I am a wonder before them.
Literal Standard 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
5For a portion he shows friendship, || And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
7And my eye is dim from sorrow, || And my members—all of them—as a shadow.
Cross References
Genesis 31:27Why have you hidden yourself to flee, and deceive me, and have not declared to me, and I send you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,
Job 30:9And now, I have been their song, || And I am to them for a byword.
Psalms 44:15All the day my confusion [is] before me, || And the shame of my face has covered me.
Isaiah 5:12And harp, and stringed instrument, tambourine, and pipe, || And wine, have been their banquets, || And they do not behold the work of YHWH, || Indeed, they have not seen the work 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 →