Job 30:9

וְעַתָּה נְגִינָתָם הָיִיתִי וָאֱהִי לָהֶם לְמִלָּֽה ׃

Hebrew Tanakh (Original)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8בְּֽנֵי ־ נָבָל גַּם ־ בְּנֵי בְלִי ־ שֵׁם נִכְּאוּ מִן ־ הָאָֽרֶץ ׃

10תִּֽעֲבוּנִי רָחֲקוּ מֶנִּי וּמִפָּנַי לֹא ־ חָשְׂכוּ רֹֽק ׃

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Cross References

Job 12:4שְׂחֹק לְרֵעֵהוּ ׀ אֶֽהְיֶה קֹרֵא לֶאֱלוֹהַּ וַֽיַּעֲנֵהוּ שְׂחוֹק צַדִּיק תָּמִֽים ׃

Psalms 35:15וּבְצַלְעִי שָׂמְחוּ וְֽנֶאֱסָפוּ נֶאֶסְפוּ עָלַי נֵכִים וְלֹא יָדַעְתִּי קָֽרְעוּ וְלֹא ־ דָֽמּוּ ׃

Psalms 69:11וָאֶבְכֶּה בַצּוֹם נַפְשִׁי וַתְּהִי לַחֲרָפוֹת לִֽי ׃

Lamentations 3:14הָיִיתִי שְּׂחֹק לְכָל ־ עַמִּי נְגִינָתָם כָּל ־ הַיּֽוֹם ׃

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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