Job 30:2

Of which men the strength of their hands was for nought to me, and they were guessed unworthy to that life (or yea, they were too weak to be of any use to me).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 younger men in time scorn me, whose fathers I deigned + 30:1 This disdain came not (out) of despite, neither (out) of pride, but (out) of worthy beholding of (their) vilety (or vileness). not to set with the dogs of my flock. (But now men younger than me scorn me, men whose fathers I would not deign to put with the dogs of my flock.)

3They were barren for neediness and hunger; they gnawed in (the) wilderness, and were (made) pale for poverty and wretchedness;

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Have thou mind on thy Creator + 12:1 The Hebrew for ‘thy Creator’ sounds much like the Hebrew for ‘thy grave’. ( Good News Bible) in the days of thy youth, before that the time of thy torment come, and the years of thy death nigh, of which thou shalt say, Those please not me. (Think thou upon thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before that the time of thy torment come, and the years of thy death approach, of which thou shalt say, These days do not please me at all.)

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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