Job 30:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְ֭עַתָּה נְגִינָתָ֣ם הָיִ֑יתִי וָאֱהִ֖י לָהֶ֣ם לְמִלָּֽה

Transliteration

And ʿattâ their nəḡînāṯām I hāyîṯî, and I wāʾĕhî to them for millâ

Grammar Details

*wə-ʿattâ*: conjunction with adverb - and now
*nəḡînāṯām*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their song/mockery
*hāyîṯî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have become/was
*wāʾĕhî*: conjunction with verb, qal imperfect apocopated, 1st person singular - and I have become/am
*lāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to them/for them
*lə-millâ*: preposition with noun, feminine singular - for byword/object of talk

Word Meanings

*ʿattâ*: now/at this time
*nəḡînāṯām*: their song/their mocking song/their taunt
*hāyîṯî*: I have become/I was/I am
*lāhem*: to them/for them
*millâ*: byword/object of talk/proverb/jest

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Job 17:6 : 6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
Lam 3:63 : 63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Lam 3:14 : 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Ps 69:11-12 : 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them. 12 They that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards.
Job 12:4 : 4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not: 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Ps 44:14 : 14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Job 17:6
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6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
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14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
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10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.
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11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.
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19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
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