Job 30:9
But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8Sons of the base, yea sons of the nameless, they were scourged out of the land.
10They abhor me—have put themselves far from me, and, from my face, have not withheld—spittle!
Cross References
Job 12:4A laughing-stock to one’s neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock—a righteous man without blame!
Psalms 35:15But, in mine overthrow, have they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together,—There gathered themselves together against me foolish men, and I knew it not, They have torn in pieces, and not been silent;
Psalms 69:11When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word;
Lamentations 3:14I have become a derision to all my people, 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 →