🌪️WEB · Job 17:6

What does Job 17:6 mean?

"“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face."

— Job 17:6 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

3

“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

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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 plunder, 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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Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

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