Job 30:1
But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,
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2the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:23Then he went up from there into Bethel. And as he was ascending along the way, little boys departed from the city. And they were mocking him, saying: “Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!”
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers.
Job 29:8The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.
Mark 14:65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face and to strike him with fists, and to say to him, “Prophesy.” And the servants struck him with the palms their hands.
Luke 23:14said to them: “You have brought before me this man, as one who disturbs the people. And behold, having questioned him before you, I find no case against this man, in those things about which you accuse 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 →