Job 17:6 · KJV
“He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}”
— Job 17:6
He that speaketh flattery to {his} friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}
Job 17 — Context
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt {them}.
5He that speaketh flattery to {his} friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}
8Upright {men} shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Cross References
Psalms 44:14
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Job 30:9
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
1 Kings 9:7
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
Genesis 31:27
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? {steal...: Heb. hast stolen me}
Isaiah 5:12
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.