OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

Job 17:6

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“But he has made me a byword of the people.

They spit in my face.

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Job 17:6 in context

Job 17:3–9

3

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.

Who is there who will strike hands with me?

4

For you have hidden their heart from understanding,

therefore you will not exalt them.

5

He who denounces his friends for plunder,

even the eyes of his children will fail.

6
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“But he has made me a byword of the people.

They spit in my face.

7

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.

All my members are as a shadow.

8

Upright men will be astonished at this.

The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

9

Yet the righteous will hold to his way.

He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

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