Job 30:2

the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.

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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 younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,

3They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the time of affliction arrives and the years draw near, about which you will say, “These do not please me.”

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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