Job 17:6

A byword. Job did become a byword, but not in the sense he anticipated. He bore his affliction so well that he became a byword for patience and endurance (see James 5:11).

A tabret. Heb. topheth, an act of spitting. Job says literally, “a spitting of the face do I become.” The translation “tabret” comes from confusing topheth with toph, a “hand drum.”