30:9 “And now I have become their taunt song;
I have become a byword 1 among them.
[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.”
