Job 30:9
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.
Definitions for Job 30:9
Clarke's Job 30:9 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Job 30:9 Bible Commentary
And 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 - See the notes at Job 17:6.
