King James Version (KJV)
Job 17:6
“He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.”
Verse in context — Job 17
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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.
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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.
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Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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