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30 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me?
Men in whom [a]ripe age is perished.
They are gaunt with want and famine;
[b]They gnaw the dry ground, [c]in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:2 Or, vigor
  2. Job 30:3 Or, They flee into the wilderness, into etc.
  3. Job 30:3 Or, which yesternight was. Or, on the eve of

30 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.

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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