Job 30:9
And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.
10They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Psalms 35:15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not. They tore me, and ceased not.
Psalms 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Lamentations 3:14I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15
Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →