Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“And now I have become their taunt,
I have even become a byword to them.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Now I am mocked by their songs;
I have become an object of scorn to them.

International Standard Version

"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them!

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“And now I have become [the subject of] their taunting;
Yes, I am a byword and a laughingstock to them.

Bible in Basic English

And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And now I was their song, and I to them for a by word.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock;

NET Bible

"And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;

Webster

And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And now am I their song
נגינת נגינה 
N@giynah 
Usage: 14

References

Easton

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

8 Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.
9 “And now I have become their taunt,
I have even become a byword to them.
10 “They abhor me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not refrain from spitting at my face.


Cross References

Job 17:6

“But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I am one at whom men spit.

Lamentations 3:14

I have become a laughingstock to all my people,
Their mocking song all the day.

Lamentations 3:63

Look on their sitting and their rising;
I am their mocking song.

Job 12:4

“I am a joke to my friends,
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and blameless man is a joke.

Psalm 35:15-16

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.

Psalm 44:14

You make us a byword among the nations,
A laughingstock among the peoples.

Psalm 69:11-12

When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.

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