Job 30:8
They were the sons of fools, indeed, sons of nameless people! 1 They were driven out of the land with whips. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7Among the bushes they brayed like donkeys 1 and they gathered together under the nettles. 1
9But now I have become the subject of their taunting song; 1 I have become a byword for them. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab was doing; for he had Ahab's daughter as his wife, and he did what was evil in Yahweh's sight.
2 Chronicles 22:3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab for his mother was his advisor in doing wicked things.
Psalms 15:4The worthless person is despised in his eyes, 1 but he honors those who fear Yahweh. 1 He swears to his own disadvantage and does not take back his promises. 1
Proverbs 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge— 1 fools despise wisdom and instruction. 1
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a fountain of life to the one who has it, 1 but the instruction of fools is their foolishness. 1
Jeremiah 7:18The children are gathering wood and the fathers kindling the fire! The women are kneading dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens and pour out drink offerings for other gods so that they will provoke 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 →