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Job 30:9

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

KJV

Nunc in eorum canticum versus sum, et factus sum eis in proverbium.

Vulgate

νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλημα ἔχουσιν·

LXX

And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

ASV

וְ֭/עַתָּה נְגִינָתָ֣/ם הָיִ֑יתִי וָ/אֱהִ֖י לָ/הֶ֣ם לְ/מִלָּֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

4 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

י
y
noun · 38×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
ם
m
noun · 14×
עַתָּ֗ה
'th
adverb · 433×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 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.
  • Job 17:6 — He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
  • Job 17:6 — He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
  • Lam 3:14 — I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
  • Lam 3:63 — Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
  • Lam 3:63 — Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
  • Ps 34:19 — Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
  • Ps 35:15 — 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:
  • Ps 69:11 — I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.