Job 30:1

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.

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Cross References

2 Kings 2:23And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him: 'Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.'

Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

Job 29:8The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;

Psalms 69:12(69-13) They that sit in the gate talk of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.

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 →

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