Job 17:6New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— He has granted power to the nations; I shall be derided before them.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— But thou has made me a byword amount the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. |
He hath made
3322 {3322} Primeיָצַגyatsag{yaw-tsag'}
A primitive root; to place permanently.
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
me also a byword
4914
of the people;
5971 {5971} Primeעַם`am{am}
From H6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively a flock.
and aforetime
6440 {6440} Primeפָּנִיםpaniym{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun ( פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ( before, etc.).
I was
x1961 (1961) Complementהָיָהhayah{haw-yaw'}
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary).
as a tabret.
8611 {8611} Primeתֹּפֶתtopheth{to'-feth}
From the base of H8608; a smiting, that is, (figuratively) contempt. |
Job 17:6
_ _ He — God. The poet reverentially suppresses the name of God when speaking of calamities inflicted.
_ _ by-word — (Deuteronomy 28:37; Psalms 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 (1 Samuel 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” (Numbers 12:14). So Raca means (Matthew 5:22) [Umbreit]. |
Job 17:6
He hath made me also a (g) byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
(g) God has made all the world speak of me, because of my afflictions. |
- a byword:
Job 30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
1 Kings 9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
Psalms 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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- aforetime:
- or, before them
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- as a tabret:
Genesis 31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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