Text -- Job 30:9 (NET)

Job’s Indignities

30:9 “And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 30:9

¹ tn The idea is that Job has become proverbial, people think of misfortune and sin when they think of him. The statement uses the ordinary word for “word” (מִלָּה, millah), but in this context it means more: “proverb; byword.”