Job 30:8

2 Chronicles 22:3; 2 Kings 8:18; 2 Kings 8:27; Isaiah 32:6; Jeremiah 7:18; Job 40:4; Mark 6:24; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 16:22; Psalms 15:4; Psalms 49:10-13

Related Commentaries of Job 30:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They were children of fools - The word rendered “fools” נבל nâbâl , means, (1) stupid, foolish; and (2) abandoned, impious; compare 1 S...
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 schol...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Children . sons. viler than the earth . smitten or scourged out of the land.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Children of fools - Children of nabal; children without a n...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They were children of fools— Foolish men and inglorious, they were driven out of the country in which they lived. Job 30:9 . But now, I am beco...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Fools - i:e., the impious and abandoned ( 1 Samuel 25...
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 n...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They were viler than the earth. — Rather, They are scourged out of the land, or are outcasts from the land.
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 in...
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 co...
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,...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[They were] children of fools ,.... Their parents were fools, or they themselves were such; foolish children, or foolish men, were they that derided...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:8 [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Ver. 8. They were children of fools, yea, chi...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They were children of fools , &c. They were children of base, obscure parents; viler than the earth upon which they trod. Houbigant translates t...
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 you...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Humbled Condition. B. C. 1520. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Children of fools; either, 1. The genuine children of foolish parents; their children not only by birth, but by imitation; as they only are estee...
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...
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...
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 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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men, really, no-account men; they were viler than the earth, literally, "who are whipped out of...

⁸ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Related Commentaries of Job 30:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:8