Job 30:8
An impious and low-born race, They are beaten out of the land.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7They bray among the bushes; Under the brambles are they stretched out.
9And now I am become their song; Yea, I am their by-word!
Cross References
Psalms 15:4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; But who honoreth them that fear the LORD; Who sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a wellspring of life to him that hath it. And the chastisement of fools is their folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The sons gather the wood, And the fathers kindle the fire, And the women knead dough, To make cakes for the queen of heaven, And to pour out libations to strange gods, That they may vex me.
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 →