John Trapp on Job 30:9

Verſe 9. And now I am their ſong] They compoſe Comedies out of my Tragedies, and make themſelves merry in my miſery; they not only make Balads and Sonnets of my ſufferings, but alſo play them upon their Inſtruments, as the Hebrew word importeth.

Yea, I am their by-word] Sermonis argumentum, the matter of their Diſcourſe; I am all their talk,De me confabulantur & contemptim loquuntur. Diſc. neither have they any thing elſe whereof to chat and babble, but only of me, yea to make my diſgraces to paſſe into a Proverb, they call all miſerable men by my name. The Ale-ſtakes ſerved David in like ſort; the Drunkards upon their Ale-bench toſſed his name as Dogs do carrion, making him their ballad and their by-word, Pſal. 69.12. The whole Church complaineth of the like contempt, Pſal. 79.4. Lam. 3.14, 63. Ezek. 33.32. Thus when the invincible Armada, as they called it, was coming for England, Don Bernardino Mendoza, the Spaniſh Embaſſadour in France, Cambd. Eliz. ſolaced himſelf with a vain and falſe Poem or Song of Englands miſeries: which as a tryumph before the victory, he abſurdly printed. The Gunpowder-Traytors alſo did the like in their ſevenfold Pſalmodie, as they called it; that divelliſh ditty, which ſecretly the Papiſts paſſed from hand to hand with Tunes ſet to be ſung or plaid.Spec. Bell. Sacr. The matter conſiſted of railing upon King Edward 6, Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and others; of Petition, Imprecation, Propheſie, and praiſe.