Job 30:9
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I {am} their musick.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.
I am {as} one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright {man is} laughed to scorn.
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: {yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it} not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not: {adversity: Heb. halting}
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Many {are} the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I {am} their musick.
And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote {him}.
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. {them: Heb. before them}
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, {saying}, {shoot...: Heb. open}