איוב 30:9
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Context
This verse from איוב Chapter 30 connects to 9 cross-references. The contrast with chapter 29 is stark: now Job is mocked by the worthless children of outcasts, abandoned by God who has become his adversary, and left to cry out in pain with no answer. He describes his wasting body …
תרגומים נוספים
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.
And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
הפניות צולבות
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man …
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I …
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.