Job 30:8
These are the sons of foolish and base men, not even paying any attention to the land.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7They rejoiced among these kinds of things, and they considered it delightful to be under thorns.
9Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had walked. For the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 22:3But he too went forth in the ways of the house of Ahab. For his mother impelled him to act impiously.
Psalms 15:4Their infirmities have been multiplied; after this, they acted more quickly. I will not gather for their convocations of blood, nor will I remember their names with my lips.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
Proverbs 16:22Learning is a fountain of life to one who possesses it. The doctrine of the foolish is senseless.
Jeremiah 7:18The sons gather the wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the wives spread the grease, so as to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to offer libations to strange gods, and so as to 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 →