Job 30:9
And now, I have been their song, || And I am to them for a byword.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8Sons of folly—even sons without name, || They have been struck from the land.
10They have detested me, || They have kept far from me, || And from before me have not spared to spit.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am a laughter to his friend: He calls to God, and He answers him, || A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.
Psalms 35:15And they have rejoiced in my halting, || And have been gathered together, || The strikers were gathered against me, || And I have not known, || They have torn, and they have not ceased;
Psalms 69:11And I make my clothing sackcloth, || And I am for an allegory to them.
Lamentations 3:14I have been 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 →