Job 17:6

Job 17:6

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4 For You have hidden their heart from ^aunderstanding;
Therefore You will not exalt them.

5 He who speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will ^afail.

6 “But He has made me ^aa byword of the people,
And I have become one in whose face men spit.

7 ^aMy eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,
And all my members are like shadows.

8 Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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He hath made me also a by-word - My afflictions and calamities have become a subject of general conversation, so that my poverty and affliction are proverbial. As poor as Job, As afflicted as Job, are proverbs that have even reached our times and are still in use.

Aforetime I was as a tabret - This is not the translation of the Hebrew vethopheth lephanim eheyeh . Instead of lephanim , I would read liphneghem , and then the clause might be translated thus: I shall be as a furnace, or consuming fire (Topheth) before them. They shall have little reason to mock when they see the end of the Lord' s dealings with me; my example will be a consuming fire to them, and my false friends will be confounded. Coverdale translates thus: He hath made me as it were a byworde of the comon people. I am his gestinge stocke amonge them.

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