Job 30:9
And atah (now) am I their mocking song, 1 yea, I am their byword. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8They were bnei naval, yea, sons of base men; 1 they were driven forth out of ha'aretz. 1
10They abhor me, they flee far from me, 1 and spare not rok (spit) in my face. + 30:10 Mt 26:67 1
Cross References
Job 12:4I am as a laughingstock to his neighbor: 1 The man who calleth upon Eloah [they say of me], and He answereth him! 1 [To them I am] a laughingstock, the tzaddik, the tamim (blameless one)! 1
Psalms 35:15But at mine stumbling they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; 1 yes, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I had no da'as; 1 they did tear at me, + 35:15 with slander and ceased not: 1
Psalms 69:11When I wept, and chastened my nefesh in the tzom (fast), 1 that became my cherpot (reproaches). 1
Lamentations 3:14I was a derision to kol ami; 1 and their + 3:14 mocking song kol hayom. 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 →