Job 30:8
They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7They will cry out among the rustling bushes.
9But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Achaab; for the daughter of Achaab was his wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 22:3And he walked in the way of the house of Achaab; for his mother was his counsellor to do evil.
Psalms 15:4Their weaknesses have been multiplied; afterward they hasted. I will by no means assemble their bloody meetings, neither will I make mention of their names with my lips.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the + 1:7 Or, sum, or, top.beginning of wisdom; and there is good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessors; but the instruction of fools is evil.
Jeremiah 7:18Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink-offerings to strange gods, that they might 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 →