diff --git a/bigquery/google/cloud/bigquery/job.py b/bigquery/google/cloud/bigquery/job.py
index 4a5f0e744e04..084181cdf757 100644
--- a/bigquery/google/cloud/bigquery/job.py
+++ b/bigquery/google/cloud/bigquery/job.py
@@ -2862,7 +2862,7 @@ def _format_for_exception(query, job_id):
         lines = query.splitlines()
         max_line_len = max(len(l) for l in lines)
 
-        header = "-----Offending SQL Follows-----"
+        header = "-----Query Job SQL Follows-----"
         header = "{:^{total_width}}".format(header, total_width=max_line_len + 5)
 
         # Print out a "ruler" above and below the SQL so we can judge columns.
diff --git a/bigquery/tests/unit/test_job.py b/bigquery/tests/unit/test_job.py
index 6e1b99d9c18a..1e75373c84b6 100644
--- a/bigquery/tests/unit/test_job.py
+++ b/bigquery/tests/unit/test_job.py
@@ -4288,7 +4288,7 @@ def test_result_error(self):
         full_text = str(exc_info.exception)
 
         assert job.job_id in full_text
-        assert "Offending SQL Follows" in full_text
+        assert "Query Job SQL Follows" in full_text
 
         for i, line in enumerate(query.splitlines(), start=1):
             expected_line = "{}:{}".format(i, line)