Job 17:6 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

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

English ASV

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

English Amplified

But He has made me a byword among the people, and they spit before my face.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

But He has made me a byword among the people, and they spit before my face.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a man people spit at.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

You have caused people to insult me, as that proverb says. People even spit at my face.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

God has made my name a bad word to everyone. People spit in my face.

"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.

English God's Word - GW 1995

"Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people. Now they spit in my face.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a man people spit at.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

“And He has made me a byword of the people, someone in whose face they spit.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

and I am made a byword of the people; their object lesson I have become.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"God has made everyone laugh at me. People spit in my face.

English NIV

"God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

"God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

“He has made me a mockery among the people; they spit in my face.

English Tyndale 1537

He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.

Job 17:6 — Compare Translations