Job’s Present State Is Humiliating

30 “But now those who are younger than I (A)mock me,
Whose fathers I refused to put with the dogs of my flock.

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30 “But now they mock me,(A)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.(B)

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Worthless [a]fellows, even [b]those without a name,
They were cast out from the land.

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  1. Job 30:8 Lit sons
  2. Job 30:8 Lit sons

A base and nameless brood,(A)
    they were driven out of the land.(B)

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12 On the right hand their [a]mob arises;
They (A)push aside my feet (B)and pile up their ways of destruction against me.

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  1. Job 30:12 Or youth arise

12 On my right(A) the tribe[a] attacks;
    they lay snares(B) for my feet,(C)
    they build their siege ramps against me.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.