Job 30:1
“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
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In Context
2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
Cross References
2 Kings 2:23He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”
Job 19:13“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Job 29:8The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
Psalms 69:12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
Mark 14:65Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
Luke 23:14and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:1
It is a melancholy "But now" which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the other, and so did Job, that his afflictions might appear the more grievous, and consequently his case the more pitiable. I. He had lived in great honour, but now he had fallen into disgrace, and was as much vilified, even by the meanest, as ever he had been magnified by… Read the whole commentary →