Job 30:9
And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].
Psalms 35:15But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:
Psalms 69:11And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.
Lamentations 3:14I am become a derision to all my people; 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 →