Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Webster Bible
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 they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.
9And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 22:3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
Psalms 15:4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a well-spring of life to him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke 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 →