He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job 17:6 belongs to Job's reply in his dispute with his friends, who condemned him unjustly. In that reply he protests his innocence and desires death. The verse means he had become a public byword among the people, an object of ridicule and scorn. He had once been like a tambourine, a figure of humiliation.
Job 17:6 belongs to Job's reply in his dispute with his friends, who condemned him unjustly. In that reply he protests his innocence and desires death. The verse means he had become a public byword among the people, an object of ridicule and scorn. He had once been like a tambourine, a figure of humiliation.