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The Book of Job, Chapter 17, Verse 6

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He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
King James Version
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
American Standard Version
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
New English Translation
He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
World English Bible
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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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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Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
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My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
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They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
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If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
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And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.