Job 30:2

Even the strength of their hands, wherefore was it mine? Upon them, vigour was lost;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1But, 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.

3In want and hunger, they were lean,—who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Yet remember thy Creator, in the days of thy vigour,—or ever come in, the days of discomfort, and the years arrive, in which thou shalt say—I have, in them, no pleasure;

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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