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.
Younger - not the three friends (Job 15:10; Job 22:4; Job 22:6-7). A general description: Job 30:1-8, The lowness of the persons who derided him; Job 30:9-15, The derision itself. Formerly old men rose to me (Job 29:8). Now not only my juniors, who are hound to reverence me (Leviticus 19:32), but even the mean and base-born, actually deride me: opposed to "smiled upon" (Job 29:24). This goes further than even the 'mockery' of Job by relation and friends. (Job 12:4; Job 16:10; Job 16:20; Job 17:2; Job 17:6; Job 19:22). Orientals feel keenly any indignity shown by the young. Job speaks as a rich Arabian emir, proud of his descent.
Dogs - regarded with disgust in the East as unclean (1 Samuel 17:43; Proverbs 26:11). They are not allowed to enter a house, but run about wild in the open air, living on offal and chance morsels (Psalms 59:14-15). Here again, we are reminded of Jesus Christ (Psalms 22:16, "Dogs have compassioned me"). Their fathers, my coevals, were so mean and famished that I would not have associated them with (not to say, set them over) my dogs in guarding my flock.