Job 30:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Job 30:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Lamentations 3:14
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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: …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-14)

Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job’s was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:— I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him. As it added much to his honour, in the day of his prosperity, that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

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.”