Job 30:9-10

Job’s Indignities

30:9 “And now I have become their taunt song;

I have become a byword ¹  among them.

30:10 They detest me and maintain their distance; ² 

they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

[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.”

[30:10]  ² tn Heb “they are far from me.”