And now am I their song
The subject of their song, of whom they sung ballads about the
streets, in public places, and at their festivals and merriments,
as Christ the antitype of Job was the song of the drunkard, (
Psalms
69:12 ) ; see ( Lamentations
3:14 ) ; or the meaning may be, they rejoiced in his
afflictions and calamities, and made themselves merry with them,
which was cruel and inhuman, as David's enemies did in his, and
those abject, mean, base people, like those that derided Job: and
so the Edomites rejoiced over the children of Judah, in the day
of their destruction, and as the inhabitants of Popish countries
will rejoice over the witnesses when slain, and make merry, (
Psalms
35:15 Psalms 35:16
) ( Obadiah
1:12 ) ( Revelation
11:9 Revelation
11:10 ) ;
yea, I am their byword:
all their talk was about him continually, and at every turn would
use his name proverbially for an hypocrite, or a wicked man; and
thus Christ, of whom Job was a type, became a proverb in the
mouth of the Jews, ( Psalms 69:11
) ; and as the Jews themselves now are with others, ( Jeremiah
24:9 ) .
