Job 30:1
But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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In Context
2The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:23And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
Job 29:8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
Psalms 69:12And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
Mark 14:65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him: Prophesy: and the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.
Luke 23:14Said to them: You have presented unto me this man, as one that perverteth the people; and behold I, having examined him before you, find no cause in this man, in those things wherein 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 →