Job Chapter 30 verse 1 Holy Bible
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
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But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
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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.
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But now they that are younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
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"But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
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And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-31. - The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Job now presents himself to us as he is, despised of men (vers. 1-10), afflicted of God (ver. 11), a prey to vague terrors (ver. 15), tortured with bodily pains (vers. 17, 18), cast off by God (vers. 19, 20), with nothing but death to look for (vers. 23-31). The chapter is the most touching in the whole book. Verse 1. - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision. As Job had been speaking last of the honour in which he was once held, he beans his contrast by chewing how at present he is disgraced and derided. Men who are outcasts and solitary themselves, poor dwellers in caves (ver. 6), who have much ado to keep body and soul together (vers. 3, 4), and not men only but youths, mere boys, scoff at him, make him a song and a byword (ver. 9). nay, "spare not to spit in his face" (ver. 10). There seem to have been in his vicinity weak and debased tribes, generally contemned and looked down upon, regarded as thieves (ver. 5) by their neighbours, and considered to be of base and vile origin (ver. 8), who saw in Job's calamities a rare opportunity for insulting and triumphing over a member of the superior race which had crushed them, and thus tasting, to a certain extent, the sweetness of revenge. Whose fathers I would have disdained (rather, I disdained) to have set with the dogs of my flock. Job had not thought their fathers worthy of employing even as the lowest class of herdsmen, those reckoned on a par with the sheep-dogs.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXXX.(1) Whose fathers I would have disdained.--Rather, whose fathers I disdained to set. The complaint is that the children of those who were so inferior to him should treat him thus.
