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The Shame of the Present

30 But those far younger than I am now laugh at me—
men whose fathers I would not have allowed
    to serve with my sheepdogs.
The strength of their hands was useless to me.[a]
Their vigor had failed.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:2 The pronouns their and they in verses 2 to 7 may refer either to the men in verse 1, to their fathers, or to both. The tenses, therefore, could be either past or present.

30 “But now they mock me,(A)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.(B)
Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
    since their vigor had gone from them?

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