Job 30:2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

◄ Job 30:2 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

English Standard Version
What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?

New American Standard Bible
"Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What use to me was the strength of their hands? Their vigor had left them.

International Standard Version
Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone?

American Standard Version
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

Darby Bible Translation
Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?

Young's Literal Translation
Also -- the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.

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

2. If their fathers could be of no profit to me, much less the sons, who are feebler than their sires; and in whose case the hope of attaining old age is utterly gone, so puny are they (Job 5:26) [Maurer]. Even if they had "strength of hands," that could be now of no use to me, as all I want in my present affliction is sympathy.