Job 30:2

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

3They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no 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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