Job 30:1

וְעַתָּה ׀ שָֽׂחֲקוּ עָלַי צְעִירִים מִמֶּנִּי לְיָמִים אֲשֶׁר ־ מָאַסְתִּי אֲבוֹתָם לָשִׁית עִם ־ כַּלְבֵי צֹאנִֽי ׃

Hebrew Tanakh (Original)

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

2גַּם ־ כֹּחַ יְדֵיהֶם לָמָּה לִּי עָלֵימוֹ אָבַד כָּֽלַח ׃

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Cross References

2 Kings 2:23וַיַּעַל מִשָּׁם בֵּֽית ־ אֵל וְהוּא ׀ עֹלֶה בַדֶּרֶךְ וּנְעָרִים קְטַנִּים יָצְאוּ מִן ־ הָעִיר וַיִּתְקַלְּסוּ ־ בוֹ וַיֹּאמְרוּ לוֹ עֲלֵה קֵרֵחַ עֲלֵה קֵרֵֽחַ ׃

Job 19:13אַחַי מֵעָלַי הִרְחִיק וְיֹדְעַי אַךְ ־ זָרוּ מִמֶּֽנִּי ׃

Job 29:8רָאוּנִי נְעָרִים וְנֶחְבָּאוּ וִֽישִׁישִׁים קָמוּ עָמָֽדוּ ׃

Psalms 69:12וָאֶתְּנָה לְבוּשִׁי שָׂק וָאֱהִי לָהֶם לְמָשָֽׁל ׃

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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