Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
He—God. The poet reverentially suppresses the name of God when speaking of calamities inflicted.
by-word— (Deuteronomy 28:37; Psalms 69:11). My awful punishment makes my name execrated everywhere, as if I must have been superlatively bad to have earned it.
aforetime . . . tabret—as David was honored (I Samuel 18:6). Rather from a different Hebrew root, "I am treated to my face as an object of disgust," literally, "an object to be spit upon in the face" (Numbers 12:14). So Raca means (Matthew 5:22) [UMBREIT].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 17:6:
Job 30:1
Job 30:9
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