Job 30:9

Job 30:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
• New International Version (NIV)“And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“And now I am their taunting song; Yes, I am their byword.

Context of Job 30:9

7Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals]; Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together. 8They are the sons of [worthless and nameless] fools, They have been driven out of the land. “And now I have become [the subject of] their taunting; Yes, I am a byword and a laughingstock to them. 10They hate me, they stand aloof from me, And do not refrain from spitting in my face. 11For God has loosed His bowstring [attacking me] and [He has] afflicted and humbled me; They have cast off the bridle [of restraint] before me.

Job 30:9 word by word

וְ֭עַתָּה נְגִינָתָ֣ם הָיִ֑יתִי וָאֱהִ֖י לָהֶ֣ם לְמִלָּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And now am I their songנְגִינָהnegîynâh negîynath · musicH5058
• yea, I am their bywordמִלָּהmillâh milleh · speechH4405

Cross-references for Job 30:9

• Job 17:6“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people, And I have become one in whose face people spit.
• Psalms 35:15But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me; They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.
• Psalms 44:14You make us a byword among the nations, A laughingstock among the people.
• Psalms 69:12They who sit in the [city’s] gate talk about me and mock me, And I am the song of the drunkards.
• Lamentations 3:14I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people, And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.

Commentaries on Job 30:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Now am I their song - I am the subject of their mirth, and serve as a proverb or by-word. They use me with every species of indignity.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9And now am I their song - See Job 17:6; compare Psalm 69:12, “I was the song of the drunkards;” Lamentations 3:14, “I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.” The sense is, that they made Job and his calamities the subject of low jesting, and treated him with contempt. His name and sufferings would be introduced into their scurrilous songs to give them pith and point, and to show how much they despised him now. Yea, I am their by-word…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9they mock me: See also 17:6; compare with Psalm 69:12; Lamentations 3:14, 63.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. (Job 17:6). Strikingly similar to the derision Jesus Christ underwent (La 3:14; Psa 69:12). Here Job returns to the sentiment in Job 30:1. It is to such I am become a song of "derision."Read the comment

Topics related to Job 30:9

• Persecution
• Scoffing

In the dictionaries

• Byword
• Cord
• Dissolve
• Prevent
• Profit
• Thief
• Job, Book of
• Music

Commentaries on Job 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary