Job 30:8
Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
In Context
7Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.
9And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18And he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab was to him for a wife, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,
2 Chronicles 22:3he also hath walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother hath been his counsellor to do wickedly.
Psalms 15:4Despised in his eyes [is] a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;
Proverbs 1:7Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Proverbs 16:22A fountain of life [is] understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.
Jeremiah 7:18The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to 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 →