Job 17:6

Job 17:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
• New International Version (NIV)“God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.

Context of Job 17:6

4You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them. 5(Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children’s eyesight fail.) “Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people. Now they spit in my face. 7Now my eyes are blurred from grief. Now all my limbs are like a shadow. 8Decent people are shocked by this, and it stirs up the innocent against godless people.

Job 17:6 word by word

וְֽ֭הִצִּגַנִי לִמְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְתֹ֖פֶת לְפָנִ֣ים אֶֽהְיֶֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He hath madeיָצַגyâtsag · to setH3322
• me also a bywordמְשֹׁלmeshôl · bywordH4914
• of the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• and aforetimeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• I was as a tabretתֹּ֫פֶתtôpheth · spitH8611

Cross-references for Job 17:6

• Job 30:9“And now they make fun of me with songs. I have become a joke to them.
• 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut Israel out of the land I gave them. I will reject this temple that I declared holy for my name. Israel will be an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.
• Psalms 44:14You made our ⌞defeat⌟ a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.
• Genesis 31:27Why did you leave secretly and trick me? You didn’t even tell me you were leaving. I would have sent you on your way rejoicing, with songs accompanied by tambourines and lyres.
• Isaiah 5:12At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they don’t pay attention to what the Lord is doing or see what his hands have done.

Commentaries on Job 17:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6He hath made me also a by-word - My afflictions and calamities have become a subject of general conversation, so that my poverty and affliction are proverbial. As poor as Job, As afflicted as Job, are proverbs that have even reached our times and are still in use. Aforetime I was as a tabret - This is not the translation of the Hebrew אהיה לפנים ותפת vethopheth lephanim eheyeh . Instead of לפנים lephanim, I would read לפניהם liphneghem, and then the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6He hath also - That is, God has done this. Also a by-word - A proverb (משׁל mâshâl ); a term of reproach, ridicule, or scorn. lie has exposed me to derision. And aforetime - Margin “before them.” The margin is the correct translation of the Hebrew, פנים pânı̂ym It means, in their presence, or in their view. I was as a tabret - This is an unhappy translation. The true meaning is,” I am become their “abhorrence,” or am to them an object of contempt.”…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Spitting in someone's face was more insulting than a slap because it made the person ceremonially unclean (16:10; Numbers 12:14).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. He--God. The poet reverentially suppresses the name of God when speaking of calamities inflicted. by-word--(De 28:37; Psa 69:11). My awful punishment makes my name execrated everywhere, as if I must have been superlatively bad to have earned it. aforetime ... tabret--as David was honored (1Sa 18:6). Rather from a different Hebrew root, "I am treated to my face as an object of disgust," literally, "an object to be spit upon in the face" (Nu 12:14). So…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Extinct
• Hold
• Tabret
• Byword
• Make, Maker

Commentaries on Job 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings