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He, i.e. God, who is oft designed by this pronoun in this book.
A by-word, 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 extreme miseries. Compare Num_21:27,28 Deu 28:37.
And, or but, or although, as this particle is oft used.
Aforetime; 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 was as a tabret, i.e. I was the people’s delight and darling, and matter of their praise, and entertained by them with applauses, and as it were with instruments of music. Or,
I am as a tabret, i.e. matter of sport and merriment to them.