Job 30:1

Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them?

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Cross References

2 Kings 2:23And he went vp from thence vnto Beth-el. And as he was going vp the way, litle children came out of the citie, and mocked him, and saide vnto him, Come vp, thou balde head, come vp, thou balde head.

Job 19:13He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.

Job 29:8The yong men saw me, and hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.

Psalms 69:12They that sate in the gate, spake of mee, and the drunkards sang of me.

Mark 14:65And some began to spit at him, and to couer his face, and to beate him with fists, and to say vnto him, Prophesie. And the sergeants smote him with their roddes.

Luke 23:14And sayd vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerted the people: and beholde, I haue examined him before you, and haue found no fault in this man, of those things whereof ye 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 →

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