Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face.
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.
Bible in Basic English
He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
Darby Translation
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in 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 He will commence evils for a position, and the eyes of his sons shall be consumed. 6 He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face. 7 And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.
Cross References
Job 30:9
And now I was their song, and I to them for a by word.
Psalm 44:14
Thou wilt set us a parable among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Genesis 31:27
For what didst thou hide to break away, and didst steal me, and didst not announce to me? and I will send thee away with gladness and with songs, with the drum and with the harp?
1 Kings 9:7
And I cut off Israel from the face of the earth which I gave to them and the house which I consecrated to my name I will cast out from my face; and Israel was for a parable and for a derision among all peoples.
Isaiah 5:12
And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not