Job 30:9 KJV
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Matthew Henry
- Job's honour is turned into contemptJob 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...
Thompson Chains
- Idle SongsSee the chain from Psalms 69:12 · 3 links
- AhaSee the chain from 2 Kings 15:38 · 13 links
Cross References
- 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 69:11–12 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. …
- 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 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: …
- Psalms 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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Topics
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Murmuring Job
- Persecution Of Job
- Scoffing Enemies of Job
Hebrew and Strong’s
- And now am I their song וְעַתָּה wĕʿattâ Adverb · with and נְגִינָתָם nĕgînātām נְגִינָה Noun · feminine singular construct · with suffix: third person masculine plural
- yea, I am their byword הָיִיתִי hāyîtî Verb · qal perfect, first person common singular וָאֱהִי wāʾĕhî Verb · qal sequential imperfect, first person common singular · with and לָהֶם lāhem Preposition · with suffix: third person masculine plural לְמִלָּה lĕmillâ מִלָּה Noun · feminine singular · with preposition
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