Job 30:9
And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
10They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
Psalms 69:11I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song 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 →