Job 30:8
They are foolish, nameless people that have been driven from the land.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7They shout out like animals among the bushes; they huddle together in the weeds for shelter.
9Yet now they mock me in their songs; I have become a joke to them!
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18Jehoram followed the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab and did what was evil in the Lord's sight.
2 Chronicles 22:3Ahaziah also followed the evil ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to do wicked things.
Psalms 15:4They reject people the Lord has rejected, but honor those who follow the Lord. They keep their promises even when it's hard to do. They don't change their minds.
Proverbs 1:7Honoring the Lord is where true knowledge begins, but fools treat wisdom and good advice with contempt.
Proverbs 16:22If you have good sense it will be a fountain of life to you, but stupid people are punished by their stupidity.
Jeremiah 7:18The children collect the firewood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods to make me angry and hurt.
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 →