Job 30:1
But now people much younger than me laugh at me; people whose fathers I would not put to work with my sheepdogs.
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2They are too weak to be any use to me; they're all worn-out.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:23Elisha went on from there to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, a group of youths came from the town. They made fun of him, calling out, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”
Job 19:13He has driven my brothers far away from me; all my former friends are estranged from me.
Job 29:8The young men saw me and moved out of the way; the elders would stand up for me.
Psalms 69:12People sitting by the town gate gossip about me. I'm the subject of rude songs sung by drunks.
Mark 14:65Then some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him, hit him with their fists, and said, “Why don't you prophesy then, you ‘Prophet’!” The guards took him away and beat him up.
Luke 23:14and told them, “You brought this man before me, accusing him of inciting the people to rebellion. I've carefully examined him in your presence, and do not find him guilty of the charges you have brought against 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 →