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Job 17:6
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
Job 17:6 · World English Bible
Job 17:6 in other translations
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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In context
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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