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Job 30:2 KJV
Job · chapter 30 · verse 2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?Job 30:2 · King James Version
Job 30:2 in context
1But 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.
2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- strengthkôachvigor, literally or figurativelyH3581 →
- wheretomâhproperly, interrogative what?H4100 →
- handsyâda handH3027 →
- agekelachmaturityH3624 →
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Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction: - I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-14