Job 30:9

But now I have become the subject of their taunting song; 1 I have become a byword for them. 1

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And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

In Context

8They were the sons of fools, indeed, sons of nameless people! 1 They were driven out of the land with whips. 1

10They abhor me and stand far off from me; 1 they do not refrain from spitting in my face. 1

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Cross References

Job 12:4I am something for my neighbor to laugh at— 1 I, one who called on God and who was answered by him! 1 I, a just and blameless man—I am now something to laugh at. 1

Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; 1 they gathered together against me, and I was surprised by them. 1 They tore at me without stopping. 1

Psalms 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, 1 I became the object of a proverb to them. 1

Lamentations 3:14I became a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunting all day long. 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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