Job 30:8
Sons of the base, yea sons of the nameless, they were scourged out of the land.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7Among the bushes, used they to shriek, Under the bramble, were they huddled together:
9But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as did the house of Ahab, for, a daughter of Ahab, became his wife,—and he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 22:3He too, walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,—for, his mother, became his counselor, to work lawlessness.
Psalms 15:4Despised in his sight, is the reprobate, but, them who revere Yahweh, he doth honour, he hath sworn to his neighbour, and will not change;
Proverbs 1:7The reverence of Yahweh, is the beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and correction, the foolish have despised.
Proverbs 16:22A well-spring of life, is discretion to its owner, but, the correction of the foolish, is folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The children, gather wood, and The fathers, kindle the fire, and The women, knead dough,—To make sacrificial cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, Provoking me to 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 →