Verse 6
Job 17:6
English Revised Version
6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְֽ֭/הִצִּגַ/נִי לִ/מְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְ/תֹ֖פֶת לְ/פָנִ֣ים אֶֽהְיֶֽה
English Translation
And I will be set to rule over nations, and I will be a leader before them.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 17 Context
1
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
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2
Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
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3
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?
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4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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5
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
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9
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronge...
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10
But return ye, all of you, and come now: and I shall not find a wise man among you.
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11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the droughts of my heart.
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12
They change the night into a day: the fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.
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13
If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
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14
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
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15
Where then is my hope? and as for my hope, who shall see it?
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16
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when once there is rest in the dust.
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