Job 30:9
But now I am become their song, and I am become a byword unto them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8The children of the worthless, yea, the children of the nameless, who were outcasts from the land.
10They loathe me, they keep themselves far from me, and from my face they withhold not their spittle.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am as one laughed at by his friend, who calleth upon God, while he answered him: [yea,] a laughing-stock though righteous and innocent.
Psalms 35:15But in my downfall they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; there gathered themselves together against me abject wretches, whom I knew not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 69:11(69:12) And when I made sackcloth my garment, I became a proverb to them.
Lamentations 3:14I am become a laughing-stock to all my people, their [jeering] 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 →