Job 30:8
Sons of folly—even sons without name, || They have been struck from the land.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7They groan among shrubs, || They are gathered together under nettles.
9And now, I have been their song, || And I am to them for a byword.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walks in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab did, for a daughter of Ahab was to him for a wife, and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH,
2 Chronicles 22:3he has also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother has been his counselor to do wickedly.
Psalms 15:4A rejected one [is] despised in his eyes, || And he honors those fearing YHWH. He has sworn to endure evil, and does not change;
Proverbs 1:7Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, || Fools have despised wisdom and instruction!
Proverbs 16:22Understanding [is] a fountain of life to its possessors, || The instruction of fools is folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The sons are gathering wood, || And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, || And the women are kneading dough, || To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, || And to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, || So as 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 →