Job 30:1
But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused—to set with the dogs of my flock.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2Even the strength of their hands, wherefore was it mine? Upon them, vigour was lost;
Cross References
2 Kings 2:23And he went up from thence, to Bethel,—and, as he was going up on the way, some lads, came forth, out of the city, and made mockery of him, and said to him, Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!
Job 19:13My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;
Job 29:8Young men saw me, and hid themselves, and, the aged, arose—they stood;
Psalms 69:12They who sit in the gate talk against me,—And [against me are] the songs of them who imbibe strong drink.
Mark 14:65And some began to be spitting at him, and, covering up his face, and to be buffeting him, and saying to him—Prophesy! And, the attendants, with smart blows, took him.
Luke 23:14said unto them—Ye brought unto me this man, as one turning away the people, and lo! I, in your presence, examining him, found, nothing, in this man worthy of blame, in respect of the things whereof ye were making accusation against 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 →