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Job 17:6 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

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

Job 17:6

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4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

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

7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

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Psalms 44:14

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Job 12:4

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"I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them."

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Isaiah 5:12

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"And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands."

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Genesis 31:27

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"Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?"

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From This Chapter

Job 17:1

"My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me."

Job 17:2

"Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?"

Job 17:3

"Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?"

Job 17:4

"For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them."

Job 17:5

"He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."

Job 17:7

"Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow."

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