Bible Strands
Job 30:9
And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses God and the reader while describing his immediate social collapse, directly following his account of the nameless, driven-out men who now surround him.
The words — The term negînātām (their taunt song) and the phrase l’millah (into a word) denote the transition from active verbal mockery to fixed public reputation.
The thread — The pattern of public ridicule and social rejection recurs in Job 17:6, Lamentations 3:63, and Lamentations 3:14.
Why it lands — The text first records the factual loss of honor and the deliberate use of song to degrade, then requires the reader to accept that righteous suffering includes the removal of social protection.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Cross-references
- Job 17:6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- Lamentations 3:63 When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
- Lamentations 3:14 I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- Job 12:4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
- Psalms 35:15 But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
- Psalms 69:11 I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
- Psalms 44:14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.