Job 17:6
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
BSB
ASV
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
KJV
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
He 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 ותפת לפנים אהיה vethopheth lephanim eheyeh. Instead of לפנים lephanim, I would read לפניהם liphneghem, and then the clause might be translated thus: I shall be as a furnace, or consuming fire (Topheth) before them.
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 Raca means (Mt 5:22) [UMBREIT].
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 44:14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
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I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
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They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.
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1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an…
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You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
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Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
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When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
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Genesis 31:27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
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Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.