Job 17:6 (ESV)ExpositionCommentary on Job 17:6 (Summary) ShareInformationReading ListEnglishJob 17:6 (ESV)6 “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.It is God who has put Job to shame. Job’s name is used as a byword for shame and misery. People even spit him in the face, believing that he is a cursed man.
6 “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.