Job 30:2

What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

In Context

1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find 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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