New English Translation
Job 30:9
9“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.
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 brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles. 8Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips. “And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them. 10They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face. 11Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.
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וְ֭עַתָּה נְגִינָתָ֣ם הָיִ֑יתִי וָאֱהִ֖י לָהֶ֣ם לְמִלָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 30:9
- Job 17:6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
- Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.
- Psalms 44:14You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.
- Psalms 69:12Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.
- Lamentations 3:14I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.
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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