Job 30:2

Indeed, the strength of their fathers' hands, how could it have helped me— 1 men in whom the strength of their mature age had perished? 1

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

In Context

1Now those who are younger than I have nothing but mockery for me— 1 these young men whose fathers I would have refused to allow to work beside the dogs of my flock. 1

3They were thin from poverty and hunger; 1 they gnawed at the dry ground in the darkness of wilderness and desolation. 1

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Also call to mind your Creator in the days of your youth, 2 before the days of difficulty come, 2 and before the years arrive when you say, 3 “I have no pleasure in them,” 1

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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