Job 30:9

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

And now am I their song, and I am their talke.

JPS

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

LXXE

But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְ֭עַתָּה נְגִינָתָ֣ם הָיִ֑יתִי וָאֱהִ֖י לָהֶ֣ם לְמִלָּֽה׃

LXX-Br

Νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλλημα ἔχουσιν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Lamentations 3:63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
• Job 17:6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
• Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
• Psalms 35:15–16But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing. Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
• Psalms 69:11–12I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them. Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
• Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
• Psalms 44:14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

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