Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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!

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 [They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land. 9 And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them. 10 They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

Cross References

Job 17:6

But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

Lamentations 3:14

I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Lamentations 3:63

Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.

Job 12:4

I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

Psalm 35:15-16

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not. They tore me, and ceased not.

Psalm 44:14

Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalm 69:11-12

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

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