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Job 30:9

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Job’s Indignities

30:9“And now I have become their taunt song;

I have become a byword21 among them.

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Footnotes

  1. 21 The idea is that Job has become proverbial, people think of misfortune and sin when they think of him. The statement uses the ordinary word for “word” (מִלָּה, millah), but in this context it means more: “proverb; byword.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“And now I have become their song;

I am a byword to them.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“And now those young men mock me in song;

I have become a byword among them.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Now I am mocked by their songs;

I have become an object of scorn to them.

NLTNew Living Translation

“And now they mock me with vulgar songs!

They taunt me!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“But now I am their mocking song,

and I have become a byword for them.

KJV 1900King James Version

And now am I their song,

Yea, I am their byword.