Job 30:8
They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.
9And now am I their song, and I am their talke.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And hee walked in the wayes of the Kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and hee did euill in the sight of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 22:3He walked also in the wayes of the house of Ahab: for his mother counselled him to doe wickedly.
Psalms 15:4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honoureth them that feare the Lord: he that sweareth to his owne hinderance and changeth not.
Proverbs 1:7The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
Proverbs 16:22Vnderstading is welspring of life vnto them that haue it: and the instruction of fooles is folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knede the dough to make cakes to the Queene of heauen and to powre out drinke offrings vnto other gods, that they may prouoke me vnto 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 →