Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Of what use to me would be even the strength of their hands, To whom old age is lost?
Cross References
Job 19:13My brethren he hath put far from me, And my acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
Job 29:8The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged arose and stood.
Psalms 69:12They who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am become the song of drunkards.
Mark 14:65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face and buffet him, and say to him, Prophesy! And the officers, with blows, took him in charge.
Luke 23:14said to them, Ye have brought to me this man, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I have examined him before you, and have found nothing in this man to sustain the charges which ye bring 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 →