VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 30:9

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

Read it in 5 translations

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

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

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

And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

8 [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

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

10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

12 Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

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