“But He has made me a (A)proverb among the people,
And I am [a]one at whom people (B)spit.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:6 Lit a spitting to the faces

“God has made me a byword(A) to everyone,(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.(C)

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11 When I made (A)sackcloth my clothing,
I became (B)a proverb to them.

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11 when I put on sackcloth,(A)
    people make sport of me.

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I will (A)make them an object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a (B)disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a (C)curse in all the places where I will scatter them.

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I will make them abhorrent(A) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,(B) a curse[a](C) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish(D) them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 24:9 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed.