Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 17:6

6. He hath made me also a by-word of the People, and a foretime , I was as a Tabret .

i. e. God, who is oft designed by this Pronoun in this Book.

Or Proverb, or common talk. My calamities are so great and prodigious, that they fill all people with discourse, and are become proverbial to express extream miseries. Compare Numb. 21. 27, 28. Deut. 28. 37.

Or, but, or although, as this particle is oft used.

So he aggravateth his present misery by the mention of his former prosperity. Or, to their faces: or openly. They do not only reproach me behind my back, but revile and mock me, and make a sport of my calamities even to my face.

i▪ e. I was the Peoples Delight and Darling, and matter of their praise, and entertained by them with applauses, and as it were with Instruments of Musick. Or, I am as a Tabret, i. e. matter of sport and merriment to them.

Marginal references: Chap. 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. 9.; Or, before them.; Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ▪