Job 30:2

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

In Context

1But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

3They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

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 →

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