Job 30:9
Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.
10They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.
Psalms 35:15But they rejoiced against me, and came together : scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.
Psalms 69:11And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
Lamentations 3:14He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
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 →