Job 30:9 · KJV
“And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.”
— Job 30:9
{They were} children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. {base...: Heb. men of no name}
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. {and...: Heb. and withhold not spittle from}
Job 30 — Context
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8{They were} children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. {base...: Heb. men of no name}
9And 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. {and...: Heb. and withhold not spittle from}
11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:63
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I {am} their musick.
Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
Lamentations 3:14
I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.
Psalms 69:11-12
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Psalms 35:15-16
But 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: {adversity: Heb. halting}
Job 12:4
I am {as} one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright {man is} laughed to scorn.
Psalms 44:14
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.