Job 30:2

Yea, what use was the koach of their hands to me, 1 since their vigor hath perished? 1

Orthodox Jewish 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 have me in derision, 1 whose avot I would have disdained to have set 1 with the dogs of my tzon. 1

3For choser (want, lack) and hunger 1 they gnawed the parched ground desolate and waste. 1

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember now thy Bo're (Creator) in the yamim of thy bechurot, while the yamei hara'ah come not, nor the shanim draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no chefetz (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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