Job 30:9
And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were scourged out of the land.
10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and he answered him: the just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Psalms 35:15But when I halted they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them.
Lamentations 3:14I am become 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 →