Job 30:2

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

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.

3For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue 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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