World English Bible
Job 17:6
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.”
Verse in context — Job 17
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For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
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He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
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