Job 30:9


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

Job 17:6


“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people,
And I have become one in whose face people spit.

Lamentations 3:14


I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.

Lamentations 3:63


Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels];
I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].

Job 12:4


“I am a joke to my friends;
I, one whom God answered when he called upon Him—
A just and blameless man is a joke [and laughed to scorn].

Psalm 35:15-16


But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me];
The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me;
They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.

Psalm 44:14


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

Psalm 69:11-12


When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],
I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

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Bible References

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Job 17:6

“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people,
And I have become one in whose face people spit.
Psalm 35:15

But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me];
The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me;
They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.
Psalm 44:14

You make us a byword among the nations,
A laughingstock among the people.
Psalm 69:12

They who sit in the [city’s] gate talk about me and mock me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.
Lamentations 3:14

I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.

General references

Matthew 27:30
They spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him repeatedly on the head.