Job 30:9
But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.
10And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.
Lamentations 3:14I became a laughing-stock 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 →