Job 30:8 A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.

◄ Job 30:8 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.

English Standard Version
A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

New American Standard Bible
"Fools, even those without a name, They were scourged from the land.

King James Bible
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Foolish men, without even a name. They were forced to leave the land.

International Standard Version
Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging."

American Standard Version
They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

Darby Bible Translation
Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

Young's Literal Translation
Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

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

8. fools—that is, the impious and abandoned (1Sa 25:25).

base—nameless, low-born rabble.

viler than, &c.—rather, they were driven or beaten out of the land. The Horites in Mount Seir (Ge 14:6 with which compare Ge 36:20, 21; De 2:12, 22) were probably the aborigines, driven out by the tribe to which Job's ancestors belonged; their name means troglodytæ, or "dwellers in caves." To these Job alludes here (Job 30:1-8, and Ge 24:4-8, which compare together).