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Text -- Job 30:1-3 (NET)
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Job’s Present Misery
30:1 “But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs .
30:2 Moreover , the strength of their hands – what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished ;
30:3 gaunt with want and hunger , they would gnaw the parched land , in former time desolate and waste .
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NET Notes: Job 30:1 Job is mocked by young fellows who come from low extraction. They mocked their elders and their betters. The scorn is strong here – dogs were de...
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NET Notes: Job 30:2 The word כֶּלַח (kelakh) only occurs in Job 5:26; but the Arabic cognate gives this meaning “strength.”...
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