Bible verse
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
Job 17:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 17.
2 Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
KJV
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
ASV
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
ERV
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
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