The Meaning of Job 17:6 Explained

Job 17:6

KJV: He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

YLT: And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

Darby: And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.

ASV: But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 17:6?

MEANING: What does Job 17:6 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 17:6 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 17:6?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He hath made  me also a byword  of the people;  and aforetime  I was as a tabret. 

What does Job 17:6 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 17:1-16 - "the Bars Of Sheol"
Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9
He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would arbitrate between him and them. God is the supreme Judge, and Job asks Him to become his surety against the recriminations of those who so shamefully misjudged him. There is no other course for hunted souls than appeal from man to God in the person of Jesus. At the close of this paragraph he insists that amid a whirlwind of trouble the righteous must hold on his way and keep his hands clean. If any should read these words whose path has dipped down into the valley of the shadow, let them hold on their way. Go on doing the will of God, so far as you know it, and it will bring you out under His heaven of love.
Job's gloomy anticipations of the future, Job 17:10-16
For him there was a grave of darkness and gloom. Men had not as yet been begotten again unto a living hope by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The soul must descend to the bars of Sheol, Job 17:16, r.v. What a contrast to our Christian hope! There is no need for us to claim the pit for father and the worm for sister! In the Father's house are many mansions. The sufferings of the present are not worthy to be compared with the glory to be revealed! Our kin are not in the dust. We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 17

1  Job appeals from men to God
6  The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish,
9  but not discourage the righteous
11  His hope is not in life, but in death

What do the individual words in Job 17:6 mean?

But He has made me a byword of the people and [men] spit one in whose face I have become
וְֽ֭הִצִּגַנִי לִמְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְתֹ֖פֶת לְפָנִ֣ים אֶֽהְיֶֽה

וְֽ֭הִצִּגַנִי  But  He  has  made  me 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive perfect, third person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: יָצַג  
Sense: to place, set, establish.
לִמְשֹׁ֣ל  a  byword 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: מְשֹׁל  
Sense: byword.
עַמִּ֑ים  of  the  people 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
וְתֹ֖פֶת  and  [men]  spit 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: תֹּפֶת  
Sense: act of spitting, spit.
לְפָנִ֣ים  one  in  whose  face 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine plural
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
אֶֽהְיֶֽה  I  have  become 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.

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