Job 30:9
“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
World English Bible Updated
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.
10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
Psalms 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
Psalms 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Lamentations 3:14I have become a derision to all my people, and their 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 →