Job 30:1
“And now, laughed at me, || Have the younger in days than I, || Whose fathers I have loathed to set || With the dogs of my flock.
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In Context
2Also—the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them old age has perished.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:23And he goes up from there to Beth-El, and he is going up in the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and scoff at him, and say to him, “Go up, bald-head! Go up, bald-head!”
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far off from me, || And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.
Job 29:8Youths have seen me, and they have been hidden, || And the aged have risen—they stood up.
Psalms 69:12Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, || And those drinking strong drink, || Play on instruments.
Mark 14:65and certain began to spit on Him, and to cover His face, and to punch Him, and to say to Him, “Prophesy”; and the officers were striking Him with their palms.
Luke 23:14said to them, “You brought this Man to me as perverting the people, and behold, I having examined [Him] before you, found no fault in this Man in those things you bring forward against Him;
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 →