Job 30:9

But now I am their music, 1 And they have me for a byword. 1

Updated 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, 1 Whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth. 1

10And they stood aloof and abhorred me, 1 And spared not to spit in my face. 1

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Cross References

Job 12:4For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery. 1

Lamentations 3:14I became a laughingstock to all my people; 1 And their song all the day. 1

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 →

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