Job 30:9
And now I am become their song; Yea, I am their by-word!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8An impious and low-born race, They are beaten out of the land.
10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me; They forbear not to spit before my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am become a laughing-stock to my friend,—I who call upon God, that he would answer me! The innocent and upright man is held in derision.
Psalms 35:15But at my fall they rejoice, and gather themselves together; Revilers whom I know not assemble themselves against me; They tear me without ceasing.
Psalms 69:11When I clothe myself in sackcloth, Then I become their by-word.
Lamentations 3:14I have been a laughing-stock 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 →