Job 17:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:9 : 9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
  • Ps 44:14 : 14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.
  • Isa 5:12 : 12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
  • Gen 31:27 : 27 Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

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    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

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    16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Job 30:9-10
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    9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

    10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

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    7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • Ps 69:11-12
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    11 When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

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  • Job 16:7-12
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    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

    8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

    11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

    12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

  • Ps 22:6-7
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    6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

    7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • Lam 3:11
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    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Ps 31:11-12
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    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

    12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

  • Lam 3:3-6
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    3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

    5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • Ps 109:25
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    25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

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    3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • Job 30:19
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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Ps 44:14
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    14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

  • Job 19:11
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    11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

  • Job 19:9
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    9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

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    7 O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.

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    31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

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    8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

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    2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

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    20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

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    9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

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    13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • Jer 11:19
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    19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

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