Job 30:2

The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not:

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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