Job 30:1 "But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

English Standard Version
“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

New American Standard Bible
"But now those younger than I mock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

International Standard Version
"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

American Standard Version
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

Darby Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

30:1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 30

Job 30:1-31.

1. younger—not the three friends (Job 15:10; 32:4, 6, 7). A general description: Job 30:1-8, the lowness of the persons who derided him; Job 30:9-15, the derision itself. Formerly old men rose to me (Job 29:8). Now not only my juniors, who are bound to reverence me (Le 19:32), but even the mean and base-born actually deride me; opposed to, "smiled upon" (Job 29:24). This goes farther than even the "mockery" of Job by relations and friends (Job 12:4; 16:10, 20; 17:2, 6; 19:22). Orientals feel keenly any indignity shown by the young. Job speaks as a rich Arabian emir, proud of his descent.

dogs—regarded with disgust in the East as unclean (1Sa 17:43; Pr 26:11). They are not allowed to enter a house, but run about wild in the open air, living on offal and chance morsels (Ps 59:14, 15). Here again we are reminded of Jesus Christ (Ps 22:16). "Their fathers, my coevals, were so mean and famished that I would not have associated them with (not to say, set them over) my dogs in guarding my flock."