Verse List for JOB 17:6

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Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) ⇔  He’s made me into a local gossip point. ⇔ Someone to spit at in the face.

OET-LV And_he_has _set _me to_use _a _proverb peoples and_a _spitting to_the_face I _am.

ULT But he has made me a saying of the peoples, ⇔  and I have become a spitting in the face,

UST But because God is punishing me, ⇔  people use my name to mean someone who was formerly prosperous but who experienced disaster because he was wicked. ⇔  People even spit in my face to insult me.

BSB & MSB He has made me a byword among the people, ⇔  [a man] in whose face they spit.

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB ⇔  “But he has made me a byword of the people. ⇔  They spit in my face.

NET He has made me a byword to people, ⇔ I am the one in whose face they spit.

LSV And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples,
And I am a wonder before them.

FBV He has made me a proverb of ridicule[fn] among the people; they spit in my face.

T4T ⇔  “But now people use that saying of our ancestors when they talk about me; ⇔  they spit in my face to insult me.

LEB • “And he has made me a proverb for[fn] the peoples,
• and I am one before whom people spit .[fn]

BBE He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

Moff the light in his home shall be dark, ⇔  the lamp over his head goes out;

JPS He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.

ASV ⇔  But he hath made me a byword of the people; ⇔ And they spit in my face.

DRA He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.

YLT And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

Drby And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.

RV He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
(He hath/has made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.)

SLT He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face.

Wbstr He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.

KJB-1769 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.[fn]
(He hath/has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime/previously I was as a tabret.)

KJB-1611 He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and [fn]afore time I was as a tabret.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps He hath made me a byworde of the people, where as afore I was their ioy.
(He hath/has made me a byword of the people, where as afore I was their joy.)

Gnva Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
(He hath/has also made me a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.)

Cvdl He hath made me as it were a byworde of the comon people, I am his gestinge stocke amoge the.
(He hath/has made me as it were a byword of the common people, I am his guestinge stock among them.)

Wycl He hath set as in to a prouerbe of the comyn puple, and his saumple bifor hem.
(He hath/has set as in to a proverb of the common people, and his sample before them.)

Luth Er hat mich zum Sprichwort unter den Leuten gesetzt, und muß ein Wunder unter ihnen sein.
(He has me for_the proverb/saying under the people set(v), and must a miracle/wonder under to_them be.)

ClVg Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi, et exemplum sum coram eis.[fn]
(Posuit me as_if in/into/on proverb common_people, and example I_am before to_them.)

UHB וְֽ֭⁠הִצִּגַ⁠נִי לִ⁠מְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְ⁠תֹ֖פֶת לְ⁠פָנִ֣ים אֶֽהְיֶֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἔθου δέ με θρύλλημα ἐν ἔθνεσι, γέλως δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀπέβην.

BrTr But thou hast made me a byword among the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.