Job 30 · Verse 9

Job 30:9

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job 30:9, King James Version

Job 30:9 in other translations

BSBAnd now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
WEB“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
ASVAnd now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.
YLTAnd now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
DARBYAnd now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
BBEAnd now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
WebsterAnd now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.

What does Job 30:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. (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."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Now 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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.

Read the full comment on Job 30:1-14 →

Job 30:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְ֭עַתָּהVe.'a.tahand nowH6258
נְגִינָתָ֣םne.gi.na.Tamtaunt song theirH5058
הָיִ֑יתִיha.Yi.tiI have becomeH1961
וָאֱהִ֖יva.'e.Hiand I have becomeH1961
לָהֶ֣םla.Hemfor them
לְמִלָּֽה\׃le.mi.Lah<into> a wordH4405

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 30:9

  • Job 17:6

    He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  • Lamentations 3:63

    Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

  • Lamentations 3:14

    I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

  • 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: With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • Psalms 69:11-12

    I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
am I.
17:6; Ps 35:15,16; 44:14; 69:12; La 3:14,63

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 30:8

    They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

  • Job 30:9

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

  • Job 30:10

    They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

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Job 30:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y ahora yo soy su canción, y he sido hecho su refrán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et maintenant, je suis leur chanson et je suis le sujet de leur entretien.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und nun bin ich ihr Spottlied geworden, und ward ihnen zum Gerede.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Nunc in eorum canticum versus sum, et factus sum eis in proverbium.