Job 30:9
Yet now they mock me in their songs; I have become a joke to them!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8They are foolish, nameless people that have been driven from the land.
10They despise and shun me; they don't hesitate to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4But my friends laugh at me because I called on God and he answered me: the innocent man who does right has become an object of derision.
Psalms 35:15But when I was in trouble, they gathered around and laughed at me. Even strangers I don't know attacked me, constantly tearing me apart.
Psalms 69:11I mourned in sackcloth, but they laughed at me.
Lamentations 3:14Now everyone laughs at me, singing songs that mock me all 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 →