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Job 30:9
9But now their sons sing songs that insult me. They tell jokes about me.
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
7They cried aloud like animals among the bushes. They hid together under the thorn bushes. 8They were foolish people that nobody respected. People chased them away from their land. But now their sons sing songs that insult me. They tell jokes about me. 10They hate me and they do not come near me. When they see me, they spit at my face. 11God has made me weak and helpless. People do to me anything that they want to do.
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וְ֭עַתָּה נְגִינָתָ֣ם הָיִ֑יתִי וָאֱהִ֖י לָהֶ֣ם לְמִלָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:9
- Job 17:6You have caused people to insult me, like that proverb says. People even spit at my face.
- Psalms 35:15But when I had troubles myself, they were happy. They stood together and they laughed at me. Even strangers attacked me and they would not stop.
- Psalms 44:14The other nations tell jokes about us. They think that we are nothing.
- Psalms 69:12People who sit at the city gate talk about me. People who are drunk make songs to sing about me.
- Lamentations 3:14All the people see me and laugh. They even sing silly songs about me all the time.
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
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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
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