Job 30:1
But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:23And he went up from there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Job 29:8The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood.
Psalms 69:12Those who sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.
Mark 14:65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with a fist, and to say to him, Prophesy. And the subordinates were throwing him with slaps.
Luke 23:14said to them, Ye brought this man to me as turning away the people. And behold, I, having examined him before you, found nothing guilty in this man of what ye accuse against him.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:1
It is a melancholy "But now" which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the other, and so did Job, that his afflictions might appear the more grievous, and consequently his case the more pitiable. I. He had lived in great honour, but now he had fallen into disgrace, and was as much vilified, even by the meanest, as ever he had been magnified by… Read the whole commentary →