Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock;
New American Standard Bible
I have even become a
King James Version
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Holman Bible
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
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.
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
References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
8 They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world. 9 Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock; 10 they abhor me, they flee far from me, and stain my face with spittle,
Names
Cross References
Job 17:6
He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.
Lamentations 3:14
I am laughed to scorn of all my people; they make songs upon me all the day long.
Lamentations 3:63
Thou seest also their sitting down and their rising up. They make their songs of nothing but me.
Job 12:4
Thus, he that calleth upon God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neighbour; the godly and innocent man is laughed to scorn.
Psalm 35:15-16
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the very lame came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.
Psalm 44:14
Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.
Psalm 69:11-12
I put on a sackcloth, and therefore they jested upon me.