Job 30:8
They are sons of fools and vile men, 1 Whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7They will cry out among the rustling bushes. 1
9But now I am their music, 1 And they have me for a byword. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 22:3And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do evil.
Psalms 15:4Their weaknesses have been multiplied; 1 Afterward they hastened. 1 I will by no means assemble their bloody meetings, 1 Neither will I make mention of their names with my lips. 1
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; 1 And there is good understanding to all that practice it: 1 And piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; 1 But the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction. 1
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessors; 1 But the instruction of fools is evil. 1
Jeremiah 7:18Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink offerings to strange gods, that they might 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 →