Job 30:9
And now am I their song, and I am their talke.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.
10They abhorre me, and flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.
Psalms 35:15But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,
Psalms 69:11I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.
Lamentations 3:14I was a derision to all my people, and 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 →