Job 30:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But now, &c. Job having, in the foregoing chapter, described the honour of his former condition, goes on here, by way of contrast, to describe the vileness of his present state. They that are younger than I Whom both universal custom and the light of nature taught to reverence their elders and betters; have me in derision Make me the object of their contempt and scoffs: thus my glory is turned into shame. Whose fathers I would have disdained Or, rather, might have disdained; that is, whose condition was so mean and vile, that in the opinion, and according to the custom of the world, they were unworthy to be my shepherds, and the companions of my dogs, which watch my flocks. This and the seven following verses are an exaggerated description of the vileness of those to whom he was now become a derision, notwithstanding all his former authority.