Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
New American Standard Bible
And I am
King James Version
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Holman Bible
I have become a man people spit at.
International Standard Version
"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face.
A Conservative Version
But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
American Standard Version
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
Amplified
“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people,
And I have become one in whose face people spit.
Darby Translation
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
Julia Smith Translation
He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face.
King James 2000
He has made me also a byword of the people; and I was as one before whom men spit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And he has made me a proverb for [the] peoples, {and I am one before whom people spit}.
Modern King James verseion
He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.
NET Bible
He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
New Heart English Bible
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
The Emphasized Bible
But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.
Webster
He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
World English Bible
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
Youngs Literal Translation
And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 17:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You
5 As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children. 6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport. 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
Cross References
Job 30:9
And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Psalm 44:14
Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.
Genesis 31:27
Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?
1 Kings 9:7
Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
Isaiah 5:12
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.