🌪️WEB · Job 30:9

What does Job 30:9 mean?

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

— Job 30:9 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

6

So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

7

Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.

8

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

9

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

10

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

11

For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

12

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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