Your Holy Bible Bibliomancy Reading
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Your verse is Job 17:6. Compare seven translations and read the entire chapter below for context.
King James Version
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
World English Bible
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
Geneva 1599
Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
JPS Tanakh 1917
He hath made me also a byword of the people; And I am become one in whose face they spit.
Bible in Basic English
He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
Young's Literal Translation
And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
Chapter Context (KJV): Job 17
1. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3. Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4. For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5. He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6. He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8. Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9. The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10. But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11. My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12. They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13. If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16. They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
