Job 30:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? ”

Job 30:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me - There has been much difference of opinion respecting the meaning of this passage. The general sense is clear. Job means to describe thos...
Job 30:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was (c) perished? (c) That is, their fathers died of hunger before they came to age.
Job 30:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30. Job's Present Misery. As the text stands at present, Job begins by complaining that the very abjects of society now despise him. Many scholars, however, detach Job 30:2-8 as a misplaced s...
Job 30:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? The strength of their hands profit me - He is speaking here of the fathers of these young men. What was the...
Job 30:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Yea, whereto might the strength, &c.— For of what use was the labour of their hands to me, since all life was destroyed in them? Heath. Houbigant renders the last clause, When all their heal...
Job 30:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? If their fathers could be of no profit to me, much less the sons, who are feebler than their sires; and...
Job 30:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Present Misery Job bitterly contrasts his present with his past condition, as described in Job 29 . It must be borne in mind that Job was now outcast and beggared. 1-8. Job complains tha...
Job 30:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, is the description of the fathers; Job 30:3 seqq. describes their children. The people here spoken of seem to have been somewhat similar to...
Job 30:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
Job 30:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Immediately Job passed to the description of his present condition, which is all the more startling as it stands in contrast with what he had said concerning the past. He first described the base who...
Job 30:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ 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. (2) Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit...
Job 30:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me ,.... For though they were strong, lusty, hale men, able to do business, yet their strength was to sit still and fold their hands in thei...
Job 30:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished? Ver. 2. Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me ] For, to say the truth (thus Beza here...
Job 30:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Yea, whereto might their hands profit me? Nor was it strange that I did, or might refuse to take them into any of my meanest services, being utterly impotent and unfit for any business; in whom ol...
Job 30:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MOCKED BY HIS INFERIORS (vv.1-8) What a contrast was Job's condition now! Prominent men of dignity had once shown Job every respect, but now young men of what might be considered the lowest clas...
Job 30:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Humbled Condition. B. C. 1520. 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in...
Job 30:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nor was it strange that I did, or would. or might refuse to take them into any of my meanest services, because they were utterly impotent, and therefore unserviceable. In whom old age was perished;...
Job 30:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED With his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His object as well to show the grounds he has for com...
Job 30:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:1 . The dogs of my flock. Job does not say this through pride, for he owns that the slave and himself were formed by the same hand: Job 31:15 . He says it rather with a view to describe th...
Job 30:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision. Job’s social disabilities Man’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind feeling and respect which is shown to hi...
Job 30:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 30:1-18 The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Jo...
Job 30:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men.
Job 30:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 10:13 ; Job 5:26

Job 30:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 30:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 30:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 30:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 30:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge