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Job 17:6

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

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  1. Job 17:4

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

  2. Job 17:5

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

  3. Job 17:7

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

  4. Job 17:8

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.