Job 30:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:6 : 6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
  • Lam 3:63 : 63 Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
  • Lam 3:14 : 14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
  • Ps 69:11-12 : 11 When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me. 12 I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me. 16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
  • Ps 44:14 : 14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 17:6
    80%

    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • Lam 3:14
    80%

    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • Job 30:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

    11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

  • Ps 69:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

    12 I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.

  • Ps 31:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

    12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

    13 False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

  • Ps 109:25
    74%

    25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • Job 30:8
    73%

    8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

    7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • Lam 3:63
    73%

    63 Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.

  • Job 30:19
    73%

    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Job 30:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

    2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

  • Job 16:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

    11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

    16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

  • Ps 102:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

    9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

  • Job 19:3
    70%

    3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • Ps 69:8
    69%

    8 I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

  • Job 30:29-31
    3 verses
    69%

    29 I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

    30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

    31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

  • Jer 20:10
    69%

    10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • Job 9:31
    69%

    31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

  • Ps 39:10
    69%

    10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Job 19:9
    69%

    9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 12:4
    69%

    4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

  • Ps 38:16
    69%

    16 I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

  • Ps 88:8
    69%

    8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

  • Jer 20:8
    69%

    8 For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

  • Jer 11:19
    68%

    19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

  • Ps 55:3
    68%

    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Ps 35:26
    68%

    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

  • Ps 35:21
    68%

    21 Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

  • Job 30:16
    68%

    16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • Ps 79:4
    68%

    4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

  • Lam 3:11
    68%

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Ps 22:13
    68%

    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Ps 40:15
    68%

    15 Let those who say to me, Aha, aha! be surprised because of their shame.

  • Lam 3:1
    67%

    1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.