Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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 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,

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.

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