Revised Literal Translation
Job 30:9
9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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 brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. 8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. 10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. 11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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וְ֭עַתָּה נְגִינָתָ֣ם הָיִ֑יתִי וָאֱהִ֖י לָהֶ֣ם לְמִלָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 30:9
- Job 17:6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
- Psalms 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
- Psalms 44:14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
- Psalms 69:12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
- Lamentations 3:14I was a derision to all my people; and their 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
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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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