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Job Chapter 30 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Job 30:8

`They are' children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.
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BBE Job 30:8

They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
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DARBY Job 30:8

Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
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KJV Job 30:8

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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WBT Job 30:8

They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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WEB Job 30:8

They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
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YLT Job 30:8

Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - They were children of fools. The physical degeneracy whereof Job has been speaking is accompanied in most instances by extreme mental incapacity. Some of the degraded races cannot count beyond four or five; others have not more than two or three hundred words in their vocabulary. They are all of low intellect, though occasionally extremely artful and cunning. Yea, children of base men; literally, children of no name. Their race had never made for itself any name, but was unknown and insignificant. They were viler than the earth; rather, they were scourged out of the land. This must not be understood literally. It is a rhetorical repetition of what had been already said in ver. 5. The expression may be compared with the tale in Herodotus, that when the Scythian slaves rebelled and took up arms, the Scythians scourged them into subjection (Herod., 4:3, 4).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) They were viler than the earth.--Rather, They are scourged out of the land, or are outcasts from the land.