Job 30:9
Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8These are the sons of foolish and base men, not even paying any attention to the land.
10They loathe me, and so they flee far from me, and they are not reluctant to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
Lamentations 3:14HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout 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 →