Job 30:2

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 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.

3Who suffer for want and famine in solitude; who flee into the wilderness [where all is] darkness, ruin, and desolation;

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1But remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youthful vigor, while the evil days are not yet come, nor those years draw nigh of which thou wilt say, I have no pleasure in them;

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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