Job 30:9
And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am as one mocked by his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is derided.
Psalms 35:15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and assembled themselves: yes , the abjects assembled themselves against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me , and ceased not:
Psalms 69:11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to 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 →