Job 30:9

World English Bible (2000)

"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:6 : 6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
  • Lam 3:63 : 63 You see 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 to them. 12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease. 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
  • Ps 44:14 : 14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head 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 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • Lam 3:14
    80%

    14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • Job 30:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.

    11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

    12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

  • Ps 69:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

    12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

  • Ps 31:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

    12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

    13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

  • Ps 109:25
    74%

    25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

    19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

  • Job 30:8
    73%

    8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

    7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

  • Lam 3:63
    73%

    63 You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

  • Job 30:19
    73%

    19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 30:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

    2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

  • Job 16:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

    10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

    11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

    16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

  • Ps 102:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

    9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

  • Job 19:3
    70%

    3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

  • Ps 69:8
    69%

    8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

  • Job 30:29-31
    3 verses
    69%

    29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

    30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

    31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

  • Jer 20:10
    69%

    10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

  • Job 9:31
    69%

    31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Ps 39:10
    69%

    10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • Job 19:9
    69%

    9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 12:4
    69%

    4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

  • Ps 38:16
    69%

    16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

  • Ps 88:8
    69%

    8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

  • Jer 20:8
    69%

    8 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

  • Jer 11:19
    68%

    19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • Ps 55:3
    68%

    3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

  • Ps 35:26
    68%

    26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

  • Ps 35:21
    68%

    21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

  • Job 30:16
    68%

    16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • Ps 79:4
    68%

    4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

  • Lam 3:11
    68%

    11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Ps 22:13
    68%

    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 40:15
    68%

    15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"

  • Lam 3:1
    67%

    1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.