Job 30:2

Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

American Standard Version

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 they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

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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