Job 30:9

9 Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

Job 30:9 Meaning and Commentary

Job 30:9

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 ) .

Job 30:9 In-Context

7 They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.

8 The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

9 Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

10 They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.

11 For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.