Job 17:6

Modern

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

Traditional

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Literal

And He has made me a byword among the peoples, and a spitting in the face I have become.

Latin

Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi, et exemplum sum coram eis.

Hebrew

English

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

Spitting in someone's face was more insulting than a slap because it made the person ceremonially unclean (16:10; Numbers 12:14).

Job 30:9
And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Psalm 44:14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Genesis 31:27
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
Isaiah 5:12
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
1 Kings 9:7
…then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.