Job 17:6
He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi, et exemplum sum coram eis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔθου δέ με θρύλημα ἐν ἔθνεσιν, γέλως δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀπέβην·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְֽ֭הִצִּגַנִי לִמְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְתֹ֖פֶת לְפָנִ֣ים אֶֽהְיֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Example. Protestants, "a tabret." (Haydock)
The people sing over my misfortune, Lamentations iii. 14. I am represented as a victim of God's just indignation. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "a laughter," or laughing-stock. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.