Job 30:8
They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
9And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 22:3He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.
Psalms 15:4Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
Proverbs 16:22Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.
Jeremiah 7:18The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
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 →