Job 30:9

Translations

Modern

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

Traditional

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

Literal

And now I have become their song, and I have become a byword among them.

Latin

Nunc in eorum canticum versus sum, et factus sum eis in proverbium.

Original

Hebrew

English

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

Notes

Job 30:9

they mock me: See also 17:6; compare with Psalm 69:12; Lamentations 3:14, 63.

Job 29:1–31:40

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Job 17:6
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
Lamentations 3:63
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
Lamentations 3:14
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
Psalm 35:15–16
But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
Psalm 69:11–12
I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
Job 12:4
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
Psalm 44:14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Glossary

Book of Job God, Names of

Topics

Persecution of Job Scoffing: Enemies of Job Scorning and Mocking: Enemies of Joab

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