Job 17:6

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
BSB · Berean Standard Bible
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Note aforetime: or, before them

KJV · King James Version
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
WEB · World English Bible
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
ASV · American Standard Version

Related passages

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.

a by-word
Job 30:9; 1 Kings 9:7; Psalm 44:14
aforetime
or, before them. as a tabret.
Genesis 31:27; Isaiah 5:12