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.
they that are
Job 19:13-19 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintance are truly …
Job 29:8-10 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up…
2 Kings 2:23 And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the …
Isaiah 3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every …
younger than I. Heb. of fewer days than I. whose
Psalm 35:15,16 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: …
Psalm 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet …
Mark 15:17-20 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, …
Luke 23:14,18,35,39 Said to them, You have brought this man to me, as one that perverts …
Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain …
Titus 1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians …
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.
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
mallows (The Hebrew malluach, in Arabic, malluch and in Syriac mallucho, is probably the halimus of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten.)
juniper roots (The Hebrew rothem, in Arabic, ratim, and in Spanish, retama, most probably signifies the genista or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia.)
for their meat
2 Kings 4:38,39 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; …
Amos 7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither …
Luke 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine …
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
children
2 Kings 8:18,27 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house …
2 Chronicles 22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was …
Psalm 49:10-13 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish …
Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the …
Mark 6:24 And she went forth, and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And …
fools
Proverbs 1:7,22 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise …
Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life to him that has it: but the …
base men. Heb. men of no name. viler
Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth.
Psalm 15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honors them that …
Isaiah 32:6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work …
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
abhor me
Job 19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 42:6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalm 88:8 You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an …
Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed …
flee far
Job 19:13,14 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintance are truly …
Psalm 88:8 You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an …
Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends …
Matthew 26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might …
spare not to spit in my face. Heb. withhold not spittle from my face
Numbers 12:14 And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, …
Deuteronomy 25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the …
Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked …
Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote …
Matthew 27:30 And they spit on him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
loosed
Job 12:18,21 He looses the bond of kings, and girds their loins with a girdle…
2 Samuel 16:5-8 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out a man …
let loose
Psalm 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, …
Matthew 26:67,68 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote …
Matthew 27:39-44 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads…
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, …
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Terrors
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof …
Job 7:14 Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
Job 9:27,28 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, …
Job 10:16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show …
Psalm 88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer …
soul. Heb. principal one. as a cloud
Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as …
Hosea 6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? …
Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew …
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
My bones
Job 33:19-21 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, and the multitude of his …
Psalm 6:2-6 Have mercy on me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my …
Psalm 38:2-8 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore…
in the night season
Job 7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? …
Psalm 22:2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night …
Isaiah 38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my …
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Did not I
Psalm 35:13,14 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I …
Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places …
Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dig a pit for my …
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
in trouble. Heb. hard of day. was
Job 31:16-21 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the …
Psalm 12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from …
Proverbs 14:21,31 He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the …
Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad …
Proverbs 19:17 He that has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; and that which he …
Proverbs 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall …
Isaiah 58:7,8 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the …
Daniel 4:27 Why, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your …
2 Corinthians 9:9 (As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: …
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
When I looked
Job 3:25,26 For the thing which I greatly feared is come on me, and that which …
Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, …
Jeremiah 14:19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why …
Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to …
Micah 1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil …
light
Job 18:6,18 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be …
Job 23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered …
Psalm 97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 50:10 Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his …
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
a brother
Job 17:14 I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are …
Psalm 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Isaiah 13:21,22 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall …
Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: …
Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will …
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for …
owls. or, ostriches (Benoth y??nah, in Arabic, bintu n??matin, not owls, but ostriches, so called from their doleful and hideous noises. 'I have often,' says Dr. Shaw, 'heard them groan as if they were in the greatest agonies.')
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Psalm 137:1-4 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we …
Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure …
Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to …
Isaiah 24:7-9 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh…
Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Daniel 6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither …
