Job 30:9
And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
10I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.
Cross References
Job 12:4It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
Psalms 35:15But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.
Psalms 69:11\69:10\My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.
Lamentations 3:14I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am 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 →