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Job 17:6

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“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

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Verse 6. Example. Prot. “a tabret.” Bible.—The people sing over my misfortune. Lamentations 3:14. I am represented as a victim of God’s just indignation. Calmet.—Septuagint “a laughter,” or laughing-stock. Bible.

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