Job 30:9
And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
In Context
8Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
10They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
Cross References
Job 12:4A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.
Psalms 35:15And — in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;
Psalms 69:11And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.
Lamentations 3:14I have been 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 →