job 17:6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. - Free Bible Online

job 17:6 "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.


      6. He--God. The poet reverentially suppresses the name of God when speaking of calamities inflicted.
      by-word-- (De 28:37; Ps 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 (1Sa 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" (Nu 12:14). So Raca means (Mt 5:22) [UMBREIT].

JFB.


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