Job 30:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“And now they mock me in song; I am a byword to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And now I have become their song; yes, I am a byword to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

And now I’m their song; I’m their cliché!

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

Job 30:9 Cross References

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.

Job 17:6

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.

Job 30:8

A senseless, disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

Psalm 44:14

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Jeremiah 20:7

O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed; you have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Lamentations 3:14

I have become the laughingstock of all my people, the object of their taunt songs all day long.

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us;

Lamentations 3:63

Whether they sit or rise—see, I am the object of their taunt songs.