Job 30:8
They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.
World English Bible Classic
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. They are gathered together under the nettles.
9“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house, for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight.
2 Chronicles 22:3He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
Psalms 15:4in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
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 →