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30 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.

Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

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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?
Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed[a] the parched land(C)
    in desolate wastelands(D) at night.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:3 Or gnawed