Job 17:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

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  • Job 30:9 : 9 And now I am their song, yes, I am their byword.
  • Ps 44:14 : 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
  • Isa 5:12 : 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of his hands.
  • Gen 31:27 : 27 Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with joy, and with songs, with tambourine, and with harp?
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

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