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Job 30:2

They are too weak to be any use to me; they're all worn-out.

Free Bible 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 people much younger than me laugh at me; people whose fathers I would not put to work with my sheepdogs.

3Thin through hunger and want, they try to eat the dry ground in the dark, desolate wilderness.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator while you are young, before days of trouble come and you grow old, saying, “I'm not enjoying life anymore.”

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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