Job 30:9
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New International Version (©1984)
"And now their sons mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"And now they mock me with vulgar songs! They taunt me!

English Standard Version (©2001)
“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"And now I have become their taunt, I have even become a byword to them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"And now they make fun of me with songs. I have become a joke to them.

King James Bible
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

American King James Version
And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.

American Standard Version
And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

Bible in Basic English
And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

Darby Bible Translation
And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.

English Revised Version
And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.

World English Bible
"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

Geneva Study Bible

And now am I their {e} song, yea, I am their byword.

(e) They make songs of me, and mock my misery.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. (Job 17:6). Strikingly similar to the derision Jesus Christ underwent (La 3:14; Ps 69:12). Here Job returns to the sentiment in Job 30:1. It is to such I am become a song of "derision."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.


Job 12:4 "I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
Job 17:6 "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
Psalm 69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Lamentations 3:14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.
Lamentations 3:63 Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song. (NASB ©1995)

Byword By-Word Mock Shame Song Taunt Word


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

am I 17:6 Ps 35:15,16 44:14 69:12 La 3:14,63

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