Job 30:8
The children of the worthless, yea, the children of the nameless, who were outcasts from the land.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7Among the bushes they shriek; under briers they are huddled together,
9But now I am become their song, and I am become a byword unto them.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done; for a daughter of Achab had he for wife: and he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 22:3Also he walked in the ways of the house of Achab; for his mother was his counsellor to act wickedly.
Psalms 15:4In whose eyes the despicable is despised; but that honoreth those who fear the Lord; that sweareth to his own injury, and changeth not;
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools [alone] despise.
Proverbs 16:22Intelligence is a source of life unto its possessor; but the correction of fools is folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, in order to provoke me to anger.
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 →