Job 30:1

But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.

Leeser Tanakh

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, what possible use can the strength of their hands be unto me, over whom old age hath passed fruitlessly?

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Cross References

2 Kings 2:23And he went up from there to Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and they mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head!

Job 19:13My brothers hath he removed far from me, and my acquaintance are entirely estranged from me.

Job 29:8Young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged rose up, and remained standing;

Psalms 69:12(69:13) Those that sit in the gate talk against me; and [about me make] songs the drinkers of strong drink.

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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