Job 30:8
[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together.
9And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife. And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD.
2 Chronicles 22:3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab. For his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
Psalms 15:4in whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honors those who fear LORD, he that swears to his own hurt, and changes not,
Proverbs 1:7The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a well-spring of life to him who has it, but the correction of fools is folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15
Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →