Job 30:2

Of what use to me would be even the strength of their hands, To whom old age is lost?

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

In Context

1But 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.

3By want and hunger they are famished; They gnaw the dry desert, The darkness of desolate wastes.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember, also, thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

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 →

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